1,027 Quotes Regarding Death


A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

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

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 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

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

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.
Steve Jobs

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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
David Gerrold

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
Benjamin Franklin

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
Quintus Ennius

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert

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