Famous death quotes

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. Henry Van Dyke

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