It’s the toughest phase of life when someone dear like a family or friend passes away. These inspirational death quotes, sayings, and proverbs (with images and pictures) will give you comfort, and solace and offer sympathy in your times of grieving.
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Death is an inevitable part of life, and it has been a subject of contemplation and discussion throughout human history.
Many great thinkers, writers, and poets have written about death, and their words have become some of the most profound and inspiring death quotes of all time.
These quotes reflect the complex emotions that come with death, including grief, sadness, acceptance, and even hope. Some of these quotes are philosophical and thought-provoking, while others are comforting and reassuring.
Top 10 Death Quotes
- “Nothing is ever certain.” – Alice Sebold
- “No one here gets out alive.” – Jim Morrison
- “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan
- “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” – Neil Young
- “People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard
- “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” – J.K. Rowling
- “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” – Mark Twain
- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson
Quotes About Death
- “The goal of all life is death.” – Sigmund Freud
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- “Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” – Kahlil Gibran
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- “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling
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Famous Death Quotes and Sayings
- “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Terry Pratchett
- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word “freedom” out of your vocabulary.” – Malcolm X
- “While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. – Leonardo da Vinci
- “No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” – Martin Luther King Jr
- “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” – George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones)
- “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
- “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
- “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Sad Death Quotes
- “If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
- “A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu
- “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” ― Steve Jobs
- “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”– Norman Cousins
- “Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.” ― Jonathan Harnisch
- “In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” – Winston Churchill
- “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”- Rabindranath Tagore
- “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 the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”– Wallace Stevens
Quotes About Dying
- “I joyfully await the exit – and I hope never to return.” – Frida Kahlo
- “A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue.” – George Orwell
- “Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.” – Mother Teresa
- “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for’.” – Tupac Shakur
- “I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.” – John Lennon
- “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
- “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” – William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
- “Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?” – Epicurus
Inspirational Death Quotes
- “Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.” – Buddha
- “Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.”– Michael Landon
- “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.”– Unknown
- “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”– Leonardo da Vinci
- “You needn’t die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end.” – Stephen King
- “It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” – Banksy
- “Everyone dies eventually, whether they have power or not. That’s why you need to think about what you’ll accomplish while you’re alive.” – Mary Macbeth
- “The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe
- “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
Sad Quotes About Death
- “He that dies pays all debts.” – William Shakespeare
death quotes images - “It is natural to die as to be born.” – Francis Bacon
- “The death of a beloved is an amputation.” – C.S. Lewis
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- “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
sad death quotes - “When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed.” – Ovid
- “The first breath is the beginning of death.” – Thomas Fuller
- “In the long run, we are all dead.” – John Maynard Keynes
- “I want to be all used up when I die.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Death is but a door, time is but a window. I’ll be back!” – Ghostbusters II
Famous Death Quotes
- “For some moments in life there are no words.” – David Seltzer
- “Death is a distant rumor to the young.” – Andrew A. Rooney
- “Death aims only once, but never misses.” – Edward Counsel
- “No art is possible without a dance with death.” – Kurt Vonnegut
- “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”– Antonio Porchia
- “Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”– Tecumseh
- “Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death.”– Thomas Bernhard
- “Every man dies – not every man really lives.” – William Ross Wallace
- “We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening.”– Zhuangzi
- “Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.”– Emily Dickinson
Sayings About Death
- “Success is failure recycled. Life is death reborn.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “A good laugh and long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” – Irish proverb
- “All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.” – William Shakespeare
- “When death overtakes us, all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.”
- “Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”– François de La Rochefoucauld
- “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.” – Corazon Aquino
- “Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go.” – Jean de la Fontaine
- “It is human to have your soul brought to a crisis you did not anticipate.”– The Dune Series
- “Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where.” – John Dryden
- “Death, for instance, is nothing terrible, but the terrible thing is the opinion that death is terrible.”– Epictetus
Inspirational Short Quotes about Death
- “Life is a path; Death a destination.”
- “Death is never an apology.”– Soul King
- “Death takes no bribes.”– Benjamin Franklin
- “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”– Janet Fitch
- “The meaning of life is that it stops.”– Franz Kafka
- “Give me liberty or give me death.”– Patrick Henry
- “Death ends a life, not a relationship.”– Mitch Albom
- “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” — Peter Pan
- “In my end is my beginning.”– Mary, Queen of Scots
- “Dying is easy; it’s living that’s difficult.” – Frederick Lenz
Quotes Of Death
- “Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.”
- “Death makes equal the high and low.”– John Heywood
- “Everyone dies but not everyone lives.”– William Wallace
- “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.”– Bob Dylan
- “Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
- “I don’t want to die without any scars.”– Chuck Palahniuk
- “Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.”– Horace
- “Life has more meaning in the face of death.”– Robert Greene
- “I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”– Charlotte Brontë
- “The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”– Robert Anton Wilson
Life And Death Quotes
- “Dying should be one of the great events of life.”– Alan Watts
- “Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”– Amelia Burr
- “All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.”– Edward Young
- “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”– George Eliot
- “Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”– Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”– Arthur Miller
- “Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.”– Forrest Church
- “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death” — Samuel Butler
- “After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”– Arthur Schopenhauer
- “I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”– Corazon Aquino
Quotes About Death of a Friend
- “We loved him a lot but God loved him more.”— Unknown
- “The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses.”— Publilius Syrus
- “A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.”— Gustave Flaubert
- “In each tear shed there is a memory with a story to tell.”— Unknown
- “Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone.”— Unknown
- “For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.”– William Shakespeare
- “The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.”– German Proverb
- “Even the best of friends cannot attend each other’s funeral.” — Kehlog Albran
- “A friend dies or leaves us: we feel as if a limb was cut off.”– Thomas Jefferson
- “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” ― Richard Puz
Deep Quotes On Death
- “To fear death is to misunderstand life.”— Unknown
- “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.” —Anne Frank
- “When a close friend unexpectedly leaves us, a piece of our heart is forever broken.”— Chris Lumpkin
- “It’s crazy how someone who used to be a huge part of your life, can be gone in a second.”— Unknown
- “The two hardest things to say in life are Hello for the first time and Goodbye for the last.”― Moira Rogers
- “I’m not sure which is worse, missing you or the fact that there’s nothing I can do about it.”— Unknown
- “The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.”– Seneca
- “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.”– Terri Guillemets
- “When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.”– J. Petit-Senn
- “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day… unseen, unheard, but always near, still loved, still missed, and very dear.”― Alex MacLean
Beautiful Death Quotes
- “Dying / Is an art, like everything else.”— Sylvia Plath
- “It’s so strange that autumn is so beautiful, yet everything is dying.”
- “Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”– Tecumseh
- “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”– Thomas Campbell
- “Beautiful memories silently kept of one that we loved and will never forget.”
- “Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.”– Bertolt Brecht
- “The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”– Thornton Wilder
- “Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.”– Charles Frohman
- “Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”― Henry Van Dyke
Quotes On Dying
- “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”– J.K. Rowling
- “I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
- “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”– Samuel Butler
- “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you”—Welcome to Night Vale
- “I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.”– Ludovico Ariosto
- “Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”– David Herbert Lawrence
- “Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”– Rabindranath Tagore
- “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”— J.K. Rowling
- “You’ll drift apart, it’s true, but you’ll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.”— Philip Pullman
- “Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”– Dag Hammarskjold
Dark Quotes About Life and Death
- “Death is life’s high meed.”– John Keats
- “Death is a law, not a punishment.”– Jean Dubos
- “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”– George Orwell
- “Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.” ― Neil Gaiman
- “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”– Elizabeth Berg
- “Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”– Marcus Aurelius
- “You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.”– John Green
- “The only real ending is death. Everything else is a transition.”– Robert Greene
- “Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.”– Bryant H. McGill
- “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”– Horace Mann
Death Quotes
- “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”– Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!”– Edgar Allan Poe
- “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”– George Santayana
- “And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.”– William Cullen Bryant
- “And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”– Walt Whitman
- “What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”– Albert Camus
- “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”– Andrew Sachs
- “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”– Isaac Asimov
- “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”– Terry Pratchett
- “Our culture’s zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.”– Ram Dass
- “One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
Deep Bible Quotes about Death
- “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”– Psalm 147:3
- “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”– Matthew 5:4
- “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.”
- “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.”– John 14:1
- “The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”– Psalm 34:18
- “God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.”– Psalm 46:1 (Verses For The Loss Of A Father)
- “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”– 1 Corinthians 15:55 (Verses For The Loss Of A Father)
- “I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern for your welfare.”– Philippians 2:20 (Verses For The Loss Of A Child)
- “For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.”
- “For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.”– Psalm 48:14 (Verses For The Loss Of A Mother)
Christian Quotes About Death
- “Christ never preached any funeral sermons.” – Dwight L. Moody
- “If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing?” – Max Lucado
- “Christians never say “good-bye”; just “until we meet again.” – Woodrow Kroll
- “How awful to die out of Christ! How blessed to die in Christ!” – William Tiptaft
- “You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.” – Billy Graham
- “Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.” – George Whitefield
- “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” – William Penn
- “He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.” – Matthew Henry
- “I don’t so much pray that my death will be without pain, but that it will be without doubt.” – John Piper
- “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
Conclusion
If you know someone who is after the recent loss of a loved one and is sad and depressed, share these insightful quotes about death to help them calm down in their time of suffering.
Whether you are looking for words of wisdom to help you come to terms with your own loss or simply seeking a few moments of reflection on the meaning of death, these death quotes are sure to provide you with inspiration and comfort.
Whether you’re looking for comfort, understanding, or just curious about what others have said, these quotes offer deep insights into the nature of death and its place in our lives.