Explore Quotes on Death

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

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

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.