“Tomorrow or the next life, which comes first, we never know.”
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Death Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DEATH
Death Quotes
Read 200 of the best death quotes about life, mortality, grief and remembrance from Marcus Aurelius, Rabindranath Tagore, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran, Helen Keller and more.
“May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.”
Irish Blessing
BlessingsFunny
“Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.”
Scottish Proverb
HappinessLiving Fully
“Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.”
Horace
Seize The DayPresent Moment
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living FullyShort Quotes
“Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
PurposeDreams
“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled.”
Les Brown
DreamsAction
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
Thornton Wilder
LoveMeaning
“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfilment.”
Dag Hammarskjöld
PurposeMeaning
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
Robert G. Ingersoll
“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.”
Baruch Spinoza
FreedomPhilosophy
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
PhilosophyLife
“Sick on a journey, my dreams wander over withered fields.”
Matsuo Bashō
Death PoemJapanese Poetry
“It is very beautiful over there.”
Thomas Edison
Last WordsPeace
“Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.”
Steve Jobs
Last WordsWonder
“I must go in, the fog is rising.”
Emily Dickinson
Last WordsPoetry
“More light!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Last WordsShort Quotes
“Applaud, friends, the comedy is over.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Last WordsWit
“Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.”
Karl Marx
Last WordsWit
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”Marcus Aurelius
LossNature
“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca
Present MomentStoicism
“No coming, no going, no after, no before. I hold you close to me, I release you to be so free.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Letting GoPeace
“Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.”
Fred Rogers
Talking About GriefComfort
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice; but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry van Dyke
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”Walt Whitman
JoyLiving Fully