Life And Death Sayings and Quotes

The circle of life would not be complete without death. While never pleasant, we must accept death and treasure our loved ones while they are here. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful quotes on life and death.

So we cannot be indifferent to the question of whether there is life beyond the grave. If there is life after death, we have grounds for hope; if not, we must be reconciled to our plight of hopelessness and despair. Dinesh D'Souza
IMAGINE HEAVEN . . . imagine understanding it! I've found that people all over the world will show up to hear someone talk about Heaven. They will read books about Heaven. Whether they would admit it or not, everyone wants to know if there is life after death. After all, the death rate is 100 percent! Don Piper
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and the other begins? Edgar Allan Poe
I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguishes one man from another. Ernest Hemingway
Neither the sun, nor death can be looked at steadily. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle. Gabriel Bá
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Hans Christian Andersen
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. Henry David Thoreau
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. J.K. Rowling
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. J.R.R. Tolkien
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. James Boswell
If I was drowning you would part the sea and risk your own life to rescue me . . . Jamie McGuire
Funny how it usually takes imminent death or tragedy to think about life in light of eternity, but that's what got me willing to explore. John Burke
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you. Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. Langston Hughes
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo da Vinci
We're all a little afraid of death, we're afraid because no matter how old you are you're always making plans and you don't want to be interrupted. I'm ninety-seven years old, but after everything that's happened in my life, I feel as if I've lived two hundred years - and I wouldn't mind two hundred more so that I can keep doing what I've been doing. Louis Zamperini
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters. Mario Puzo
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
Not only is death inevitable; death is necessary for us to inherit the new life we are to enjoy in Christ. Max Lucado
If there is anything in life we can count on occurring without fail, it is physical death. Paul Snyder
Tells us that 'death and life are in the power of the tongue. Proverbs 18: 21
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterward return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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