Famous death quotes

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. Indian Proverb

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Plato

Live your own life, for you will die your own death. Latin Proverb

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. Andrew Sachs

 

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box. Italian Proverb

Death is a law, not a punishment. Jean Dubos

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. Bernard Shaw

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality. William Hocking

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth. Johann Goethe

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides

Death is the end of one story and the beginning of another. Philip Moeller

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. Bernard Shaw

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. James Byrnes

 

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche

After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Arthur Schopenhauer

I have only one curiosity left: death. Coco Chanel

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. Kahlil Gibran

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. John Donne

Death is not the worst that can happen to men. Plato

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even grater one. Vladimir Nabokov

In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten. Paul Tillich

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is very soothing and consoling! I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Being lost quotes

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

Henry David Thoreau


“ I got lost but look what I found."

Irving Berlin


In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.    

Dante Alighieri


When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.    

Josh Kaufman


No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.    

Joyce Rupp


Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.    

Dave Ramsey


The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.    

Michel de Montaigne


We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.    

Paulo Coelho


It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.    

Dr. Rollo May


I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.    

Steve Mcqueen


The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.    

Maimonides


Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.    

Voltaire


It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.    

Willie Aames


My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.    

Mason Cooley


Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?    

Billy Graham

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Quotes About Death - P2

“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?”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“You'll stay with me?'
Until the very end,' said James.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
― François Rabelais

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
― Herbert Hoover

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Quotes About Death - P1

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen


“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


“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 tarnishings.”
― Anaïs Nin


“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.”
― Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love


“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain


“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie


“Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Death Quotes

You’ve died today worrying about your death tomorrow.
Submitted by: Wandile Mkhabela

Death is freedom from the burden of life.
Submitted by: l.z.chason

Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.
– Amy Tan




Sleep is death without the responsibility.
– Fran Lebowitz




The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
– Dave Barry



The only people who fear death are those with regrets.




Superstition is the death of a thinking mind.
– Dr T.P.Chia


Submitted by: Ivy Lee

Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation.




People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
– Jim Morrison




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



Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, but love leaves a memory that no one can steal.



The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Life asked death, “Why do people love me but hate you?”
Death responded, “Because, you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth”.



Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway!
– John Wayne




Death will come easy to those who never lived at all.

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Death is freedom from the burden of life - Saying Death

You’ve died today worrying about your death tomorrow.
Submitted by: Wandile Mkhabela


Death is freedom from the burden of life.
Submitted by: l.z.chason


Death was not necessarily a portal to the blank bliss of absolute nothingness. It was a deep dive into the unknown.
– Amy Tan

Sleep is death without the responsibility.
– Fran Lebowitz

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
– Dave Barry




The only people who fear death are those with regrets.

Superstition is the death of a thinking mind.
– Dr T.P.Chia

Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation.

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
– Jim Morrison

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

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, but love leaves a memory that no one can steal.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.


Life asked death, “Why do people love me but hate you?”
Death responded, “Because, you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth”.

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway!
– John Wayne

Death will come easy to those who never lived at all.

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Death is the greatest illusion of all - Death quotes

Death is not extinguishing the light,it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

– Rabindranath Tagore

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

– Osho

Death is only a level crossing from one life to another, from life in its beginnings to life in full achievements. From this incomplete life to that transformed one.

– Raoul Plus

What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.

– Carl Jung

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

– Helen Keller

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.

– Dilip Kumar

Stupidity isn’t punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

– Laurell K. Hamilton

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

– Sophocles

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

– Rabindranath Tagore

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

– Robert H. Schuller

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father’s estate.

– African Proverb

Life is the jailer, Death the angel sent

To draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

– James Russell Lowell

Life & death are beyond our control. We can’t control where, how, or when we are born & we can’t control where, how, or when we may die. Then why worry about it.

– RVM

Submitted by: RVM

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;

And here, ev’n then, shall my cold dust remain.

— Alexander Pope

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