Top 100+ Death Quotes
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
If you or your loved one is dying, rejoice that one day all who know Jesus will have bodies and minds far better than the best we’ve ever known.
“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.”
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
Victory over the enemy of death itself is possible if we’re prepared to humbly enter by faith into the victory over death which Jesus has won for us.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
Death is just another pass, one which we must all take.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?”
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
Quotes About Death
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. —Euripides
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn’t be filled?”
The death of a beloved is an amputation. —C. S. Lewis
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing.”
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. —Kristina McMorris
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
You’re born with nothing but you die with everything.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
I’m not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~Henry Van Dyke
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
“A fact of life we all die. But the positive impact you have on others will be a living legacy.”
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
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Remember, a small problem now can become a large issue in the future that could lead to serious complications or death.
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
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. ~Marcel Proust
Christ, the One whose death we share, was justified from sin when He was raised from the dead.
It takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, and a day to love them, but it takes an entire lifetime to forget them.
Dying is like getting audited by the IRS–something that only happens to other people … until it happens to you.
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
The cross understands the process of death to life that the Lord is establishing in our lives.
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. ~Percival Arland Ussher
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” ― Oscar Wilde
God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others, no sir.
It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die”– a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. – The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy of the Extraordinary Twins
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world—the company of those who have known suffering.
“The darkness that surrounds us cannot hurt us.
It is the darkness in your own heart you should fear.”
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
A day grows old as we do. Do not wish death upon it. Let it live, let it love, and only then should you let it rest in peace.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci
“I don’t want to die without any scars.”
Once you are facing the end of your life square on, threats and innuendos based upon personal preferences seem so insignificant.
To die one’s self is a thing that must be easy, & light of consequence; but to lose a part of one’s self–well, we know how deep that pang goes, we who have suffered that disaster, received that wound which cannot heal.
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
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