Death Quotes

“I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.”

Richard Feynman

“Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

Mark Twain

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.”

“Surprise me.”

Bob Hope

“Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.”

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

“Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I am now.”

Billy Graham

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

“Death is nothing else but going home to God.”

Mother Teresa

“This is the end; for me the beginning of life.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”

“One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.”

Chinese Proverb

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

Greek Proverb

“When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.”

African Proverb

“Death is a black camel which kneels at every man's gate.”

Arabic Proverb

“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”

Italian Proverb

“You can't take it with you.”

English Proverb

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”

Cherokee Proverb

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

William James

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

Jackie Robinson

“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.”

Leo Buscaglia