Death Quotes
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Death quotes in this collection remind us death is a season of life. In nature, nothing truly dies. All matter simply changes form. Death can be seen as an ending or a transition.
Our physical form dies, but memories do not.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Those whom we loved never really leave us. They live on forever in our hearts, and cast their radiant light onto our every shadow.
Sylvana Rossetti
All things change, but nothing dies.
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A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin Tweet this Quote!
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
Laurence Binyon
Do not save your living speeches for your friends 'til they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins
Every night, when I go to sleep, I die. Every morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Mahatma Gandhi Tweet this Quote!
A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann Tweet this Quote!
Death is like the rumble of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden Tweet this Quote!
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov Tweet this Quote!
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin Tweet this Quote!
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson Tweet this Quote!
There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ‘em. But all that’s gonna matter is the little dash between ‘em.
Kevin Welsh
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Kahlil Gibran Tweet this Quote!
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn Tweet this Quote!
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
William Wordsworth
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls Tweet this Quote!
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson Tweet this Quote!
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time…It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
Seneca Tweet this Quote!
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates Tweet this Quote!
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell Tweet this Quote!
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci Tweet this Quote!
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
Annie Besant
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore Tweet this Quote!
Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.
Wayne Dyer Tweet this Quote!
Every day a little death.
Stephen Sondheim Tweet this Quote!
God made death so we’d know when to stop.
Steven Stiles Tweet this Quote!
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
Sir Walter Scott Tweet this Quote!
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton Tweet this Quote!
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Mignon McLaughlin
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder Tweet this Quote!
There is no death! The stars go down to rise upon some other shore, and bright in heaven’s jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.
John L. McCreery
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