51 Top Amazing Quotes on Death – Must See #21

Death, the inevitable. The beauty of death is that it is a constant reminder of the limited time we spend here in this unique life on Earth. It is the ongoing wake-up call that reminds us to be joyous, to laugh, to love, to be compassionate and grateful, and most of all – to forgive.

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Here are 51 selected quotes on Death

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

“Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.” – Steve Jobs

“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

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling

“Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force.” – Yoda

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.” – Khalil Gibran

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling

“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.” – Bhagavad Gita

“Death is the final wake-up call.” – Doug Horton

“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” – Charles Caleb Colton

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

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take an eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“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 the most beautiful adventure in life.” – Charles Frohman

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” – George Eliot

“Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force.” – Yoda

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen

“Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.” – Dick Sharples

“Death is a debt we all must pay.” – Euripides

“Death is the final stage of growth.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.” – Milan Kundera

“The boundary of life is a passing frontier, and death a phenomenon of life.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

“The goal of all life is death.” – Sigmund Freud

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” – J.M. Barrie

“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 F. Buscaglia

“Death is the last enemy to be destroyed.” – 1 Corinthians 15:26

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.” – Albert Einstein

“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.” – Publilius Syrus

“The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.” – Lois McMaster Bujold

“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition into a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.” – Dick Sharples

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” – Haruki Murakami

“Death is the great leveller.” – Samuel Johnson

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins

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

“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 the final wake-up call.” – Douglas Horton

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth for that which is dead. Therefore, grieve not for what is inevitable.” – Bhagavad Gita

“Death is not the opposite of life, it’s a part of it.” – Mitch Albom

“Death is not the end of life; it is the beginning of an eternal journey.” – Debasish Mridha

“Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.” – Alice Thomas Ellis

“Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.” – D. H. Lawrence

Conclusion

It’s difficult to know what to say when trying to comfort someone who has suffered the loss of a loved one. But death is part of the human condition, and there is no shortage of literature about death and dying. Sometimes it takes a poet or a writer to give us perspective on the meanings of life and death. See this post from GoodReads for more such quotes.