Quotes and Sayings about Death

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

It's odd, isn't it? People die everyday and the world goes on like nothing happened.

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

What happens after you die? Lots of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Deny death, and you deny life.

You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

Death can be the greatest opportunity of your life.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.

When you know death comes soon, you look around things more close.

You know, you come from nothing, you're going back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

I'll tell you what I know about death, Camille. Death dances silently in everyone's shadow, and she doesn't give a damn. So why give a damn about her?

You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Knowing that you want to die makes you less scared.

Death is so final, whereas life is full of possibilities.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Death is the enemy. The first enemy and the last.

Funerals, I've decided, are not for the dead. They are for the living.

Only love and death change all things.

I said to my professor, "Why mourn the death of presidents, or anyone for that matter? The dead can't hear us." And he asked me if I believed in heaven. I said, "No." And then he asked if I had no faith in God. I said, "You have it wrong; it's God who has no faith in us."

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep,
I am a thousands winds that blow,
I am the diamond glint on snow,
I am the sunnlight in ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I do not die.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

I mean, they say dou die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

Death, at last, shall spread its wings over all.

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

There is more to living than not dying.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

It is not that we are not sad for his passing. But in celebrating life, he shall remain with us forever. What better way to strengthen the bonds of the family that remains, than celebrating all who came before?

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.