Check out the best quotes from famous people that will tell you more about dying. Death refers to the end of life, we all go through this sad occurrence, and it is inevitable. We have to accept death, but for as long as you are alive, you should live your life to the fullest and make sure to enjoy it.
Here are the most insightful death quotes that will immediately lift you out of your mind and back into the land of the living. In addition, the quotes from this list will provide you with some additional motivation to accept death as a part of life.
43 Death Quotes That Will Bring You Positivity
1. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” ― Fred Rogers
2. “Death can come at any age, but the pride of life fools a person into thinking that day is far away.” – John Buttrick
3. “Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” ― Tecumseh
4. “When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.” ― Henry David Thoreau
5. “You needn’t die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end.” ― Stephen King
6. “Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.” ― Mother Teresa
7. “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
8. “It is as natural to die as it is to be born.” – Francis Bacon
9. “Everyone dies eventually, whether they have power or not. That’s why you need to think about what you’ll accomplish while you’re alive.” ― Mary Macbeth
10. “None of us knows the day of our death. However, if we knew that death is actually our acquisition, we would remove the fear of death from our lives.” – Sunday Adelaja
11. “If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” ― Steve Jobs
12. “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.” ― Edvard Munch
13. “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” – Unknown
14. “They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” ― Banksy
15. “Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” ― George Eliot
16. “Death is but a door, time is but a window. I’ll be back!”—Ghostbusters II
17. “She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.” – George Eliot
18. “It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.’”— Robin Williams
20. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
21. “Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.” – Henry van Dyke
22. “Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.” – William Mitford
23. “I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.” ― Ludovico Ariosto
24. “Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” ― Lao Tzu
25. “To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.” ― Thomas Campbell
26. “To fear death is to misunderstand life.” – Unknown
27. “When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity. When your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.” – Stephen Levine
28. “It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.” ― Samuel Johnson
29. “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
30. “All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.” – Edward Young
31. “The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.” ― James Patterson
32. “Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” – Henry James
33. “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death”—Samuel Butler
34. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ― Marcus Aurelius
35. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
36. “A day grows old as we do. Do not wish death upon it. Let it live, let it love, and only then should you let it rest in peace.” ― Michelle C. Ustaszeski
37. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ― Rumi
38. “Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.” ― Jo Nesbo
39. “I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
40. “The truth I have been seeking — this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So — we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace.” ― Bruce Lee
41. “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
42. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” ― Mark Twain
43. “Do not seek death. But do not fear it either. There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.” ― Keisei Tagami
