Death quotes

“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.” John Steinbeck

“There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.” Angelina Jolie

“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.” Angelina Jolie

“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” Judy Garland

“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.” Jonathan Swift

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

“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

“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” Tecumseh

“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.” Tecumseh

“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.” Desmond Tutu

“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.” John Wayne

“Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.” Virginia Woolf

“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.” Virginia Woolf

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” Walt Whitman

“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” Walt Whitman

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” Marcus Aurelius

“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” Marcus Aurelius

“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

“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.” Marcus Aurelius

“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.” Robert Browning

“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.” Ambrose Bierce

“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” George Bernard Shaw

“I am dying with the help of too many physicians.” Alexander the Great

“I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.” Tupac Shakur

“Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.” Keanu Reeves