“Creatures of a day! What is anyone? What is anyone not? Man is but a dream of a shadow.”
Pindar
Brevity Of LifeMortality
Death Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DEATH
Death Quotes
Read 200 of the best death quotes about grief, loss, remembrance and the meaning of life, from Shakespeare, Seneca, John Donne, the Bible and more.
“Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh ones.”
Homer
Life CycleGenerations
“I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead.”
Homer
Value Of LifePerspective
“There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.”
Marcus Aurelius
HumilityFunny
“There are tears of things, and mortal things touch the mind.”
Virgil
GriefCompassion
“And forever, brother, hail and farewell.”
Catullus
FarewellLoss
“I have got my leave. Bid me farewell, my brothers!”
Rabindranath Tagore
FarewellPeace
“Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Life CycleAcceptance
“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.”
The Bible (Job 19:25)
FaithHope
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
The Bible (John 14:27)
PeaceComfort
“Thy dead men shall live. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust.”
The Bible (Isaiah 26:19)
ResurrectionHope
“Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
The Bible (John 12:24)
LegacySacrifice
“For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 14:14)
MortalityLoss
“To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
The Bible (Luke 23:43)
HeavenHope
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
The Bible (Matthew 11:28)
RestComfort
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
The Bible (Psalm 30:5)
GriefHope
“And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light.”
The Bible (Revelation 22:5)
HeavenLight
“If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come.”
William Shakespeare
AcceptanceFate
“After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.”
William Shakespeare
RestPeace
“The sense of death is most in apprehension.”
William Shakespeare
Fear Of DeathWisdom
“Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.”
William Shakespeare
RegretPriorities
“Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither.”
William Shakespeare
AcceptanceLife Cycle
“Every third thought shall be my grave.”
William Shakespeare
ReflectionAging
“The worth of that is that which it contains, and that is this, and this with thee remains.”
William Shakespeare
LegacyLove
“As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go.”
John Donne
Peaceful DeathFarewell