Explore Quotes on Death

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.

I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.