Death Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

God grants an easy death only to the just.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
He had been, he said, a most unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
Charles II

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well
To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
Lady Flora Hastings

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Harold Kushner

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace

Death has got something to be said for it:
There’s no need to get out of bed for it;
Wherever you may be,
They bring it to you, free.
Kingsley Amis

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A single death is a tragedy, are million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it.
Owen Meredith

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
Harvey Cushing

Death is the greatest kick of all, that’s why they save it for last.
Robert Raisner

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, ’tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
Thomas Browne

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth–that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Socrates

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.
Hugh Elliott

Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Thomas Ken

Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes it away, in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation.
Rabindranath Tagore

Poor soul, very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul!
William Archibald Spooner

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.
Lynn Caine

Days and moments quickly flying,
Blend the living with the dead;
Soon will you and I be lying
Each within our narrow bed.
Edward Caswall

Dead men tell no tales.
Proverb

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson

The whole of his life had prepared Podduyev for living, not for dying.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
Wittgenstein

I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death.
William Shakespeare

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Birth, life, and death — each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
Toni Morrison

Death is still working like a mole,
And digs my grave at each remove.
George Herbert

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Pope Paul VI

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore