Quotes about Life and Death
“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
“No one here gets out alive.”
― Jim Morrison
“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right”
― Steve Jobs
“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”
― Socrates
“No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End
“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Sometimes dead is better”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man’s life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumous fame, buoyed only by a succession of poor human beings who will very soon die and who know little of themselves, much less of someone who died long ago.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
― Tecumseh
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Virginia Woolf
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu
“We die only once, and for such a long time.”
― Moliere
“Death is the cure for all diseases.”
― Thomas Browne
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“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 nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“In the long run we are all dead.”
― John Maynard Keynes
“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”
― Euripides
“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
― Samuel Butler
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
― Epicurus
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
― Lao Tzu
“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?”
― Plato
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
