Death Quotes

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.”

“Life is uncertain; death is certain.”

“You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?”

Kahlil Gibran

“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”

“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep; he hath awakened from the dream of life.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

William Wordsworth

“The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”

Thomas Gray

“Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.”

Emily Dickinson

“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.”

Christina Rossetti

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

Muhammad Ali

“If life pleases us, death should not displease us, for it comes from the hand of the same master.”

Michelangelo

“Death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. Its image is no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

Erma Bombeck

“Excuse my dust.”

Dorothy Parker

“The body of B. Franklin, printer, like the cover of an old book, lies here; yet the work shall not be lost.”

“So it goes.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Douglas Adams

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

Terry Pratchett

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”

Vicki Harrison

“You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart.”

Anne Lamott

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”

Laurence Binyon

“There are three deaths. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

David Eagleman