Explore a selection of thought-provoking quotes about death that offer new insights into life's ultimate journey. Delve into profound wisdom and reflections on mortality through these inspiring words about death.
Delve into the profound and thought-provoking world of quotes about death. These powerful words offer solace and contemplation in the face of mortality. Embrace the wisdom and insights shared by various authors as they navigate the intricate relationship between life and death.
1. “With every breath you take, someone just took their last. Stop complaining about life. It has given you much more than what you appreciate.”
2. “I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.”
3. “Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?”
Joseph Conrad
4. “The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.”
Louis L'Amour
5. “Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”
Richard Yates
6. “Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying.”
Thomas Paine
7. “I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93).”
Stephen Levine
8. “It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
Michael Crichton
9. “Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.”
Robert A. Heinlein
10. “Grieving is your heart's way of repairing itself.”
11. “When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.”
David Foster Wallace
12. “Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.”
Sogyal Rinpoche
13. “Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
William Cowper
14. “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”
15. “But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.”
William Shakespeare
16. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.”
Dean Smith
17. “Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.”
18. “Open your heart to sympathy, and let the healing process begin.”
19. “For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
Kahlil Gibran
20. “Death's life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights.”
21. “In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.”
Douglas Adams
22. “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
23. “Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”
Marcus Aurelius
24. “There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.”
Paulo Coelho
25. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
Janet Fitch
26. “To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.”
Mark Twain
27. “Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.”
28. “How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back…All those years I spent unhappy with him …. when I should have been looking for you.”
29. “To miss someone is a reminder to us that we were not fully present when they were with us. When you are fully present, the strength of your appreciation for them will be as powerful as when they are not there.”
30. “To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.”
Washington Irving
31. “Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”
Euripides
32. “All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.”
Scott Alexander
33. “Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
34. “We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.”
Michel de Montaigne
35. “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love...”
Rainer Maria Rilke
36. “Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”
E. M. Forster
37. “Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
Arthur Miller
38. “When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left.”
39. “Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.”
William S. Burroughs
40. “The first breath is the beginning of death.”
Thomas Fuller
41. “You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
Charles Bukowski
42. “Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
Edgar Allan Poe
43. “Grieving hard is a testament to the depth of your love.”
44. “Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.”
E. M. Forster
45. “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”
Maya Angelou
46. “Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.”
47. “Poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you.”
Walt Whitman
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