Death Sayings and Quotes
Sayings about Death
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
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I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland 
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha
It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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 opening to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
Suspicion and jealousy are the death knell of any relationship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
And you, Sonja, you look more beautiful
standing here than you do in person.
- the movie Love and Death (1975)
No Sayings
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
Without change, there would be no butterflies.
- Anonymous
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
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