105 Best Death Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing death quotes and sayings.
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Short Death Sayings
“The meaning of life is that it stops.” —Franz Kafka
“Death keeps no calendar.” —Unknown
“Life is a path; Death a destination.” —Demon Hunter
“Nothing so certain as death.” —Unknown
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.” —C.S. Lewis
“Death makes no appointment.” —Unknown
“Kill me, or you are a murderer.” —Franz Kafka
“Graves are of all sizes” —Unknown
“Fighting for your country glorifies death.” —Unknown
“It is as natural to die – as to be born.” —Francis Bacon
“Dead men tell no tales.” —Unknown
“Death is but a door, time is but a window. I’ll be back.” —Ghostbusters
“Death is just another pass, one which we must all take.” —Ian McKellen
“A person has learned much who has learned how to die.” —Unknown
“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.” —Unknown
“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.” —Arthur Koestler
“Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.” —Unknown
“Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.” —Unknown
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” —Oscar Wilde
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” —J. Robert Oppenheimer
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” —Plato
“The first breath is the beginning of death.” —Thomas Fuller
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” —Anaïs Nin
“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” —J.K. Rowling
“Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.” —Unknown
“Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.” —Unknown
“Death is a distant rumor to the young.” —Andrew A. Rooney
“Nothing in life is promised except death.” —Kanye West
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.” —Unknown
“The death of the forest is the end of our life.” —Dorothy Stang
“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.” —Joseph Stalin
“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.” —Neil Gaiman
“Death – the last voyage, the longest and the best.” —Thomas Wolfe
“A brave man dies once, but a coward dies a thousand times.” —Uncle Teddy
“Death is the penalty we all pay for the privilege of life.” —Unknown
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” —Walt Whitman
“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.” —Jasper Fforde
“No more let life divide what death can join together.” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ.” —Sylvia Plath
“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.” —Tess Gerritsen
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” —Warren Zevon
“No one here gets out alive.” —Jim Morrison
“Life is a dream walking death is a going home.” —Unknown
“You can’t escape death and guests.” —Unknown
“Death is a law, not a punishment.” —Jean Dubos
“As soon as man is born he begins to die.” —Unknown
“Death pays all debts.” —William Shakespeare
“Even death has a heart.” —Markus Zusak
“A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.” —Unknown
“Better to flee from death than feel its grip.” —Homer
“You may never die before death arrives.” —Unknown
“Death and the dice level all distinctions.” —Samuel Foote
“Death is life’s way of telling you you’re fired.” —Unknown
“He killed himself for wanting to live.” —Markus Zusak
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.” —Unknown
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.” —Roland Barthes
“Everything in life is inconsistent, except death.” —Unknown
Death Sayings
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” —Norman Cousins
“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
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” —Khalil Gibran
“I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” —Woody Allen
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” —Albert Einstein
“Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem.” —Joseph Stalin
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” —George R.R. Martin
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” —Mark Twain
“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.” —Kenzaburō
“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.” —Ian Flemiing
“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” —Laurie Halse Anderson
“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.” —Huey Newton
“God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.” —Unknown
“Man should fully prepared of death.death is natural phenomena. No one can run away from death.” —Unknown
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.” —Thomas Browne
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” —Isaac Asimov
“He who lives more than one life, more than one death he suffers.” —Oscar Wilde
“Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.” —Unknown
“When death comes, the rich man has no money and the poor man no debt.” —Unknown
“Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.” —Woody Allen
“Death, so called is a thing which makes men weep. And yet, a third of life is passed in sleep.” —Lord Byron
“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.” —Nicholas Sparks
“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.” —Madeleine L’Engle
“Believe me, when you die, it’s everybody else’s but your problem.” —Cecelia Ahern
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I don’t have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.” —Tupac Shakur
“All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can’t continue forever.” —Unknown
“The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.” —Bobby Scott
“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.” —Irvin D. Yalom
“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” —Joel Osteen
“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” —E. W. Howe
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” —Bill Hicks
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” —E.M. Forster
“Life asked death, ‘Why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.” —Unknown
“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.” —Markus Zusak
“Man should fully prepared of death.death is natural phenomena. No one can run away from death.” —Unknown
“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
Top 10 Death Sayings
Here you will find top ten death sayings selected by our team.
- “Death keeps no calendar.” —Unknown
- “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” —Norman Cousins
- “Death is a shadow that always follows the body.” —Unknown
- “My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.” —Huey Newton
- “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” —Albert Einstein
- “Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.” —Unknown
- “Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” —Walt Whitman
- “We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” —Bill Hicks
- “We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.” —Thomas Browne
- “Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.” —Unknown
