Death Quotes and Sayings
Everybody wishes they could go to heaven but no one wants to die.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Mitch Albom
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.
- Benjamin Franklin
I’m tired of trying, sick of crying, I know I’ve been smiling, but inside I’m dying.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anaïs Nin
It is not the fear of dying that scares me, it’s the fear of not living that does.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
- Anaïs Nin
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
- Virginia Woolf
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
- J.K. Rowling
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
- Victor Hugo
Those near death speak with sincere hearts.
Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
- Terry Pratchett
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
- William Shakespeare
Cause I swear that I’m dying, slowly but its happening.
- Conor Oberst
Everyday is for birth, everyday is for death, once again I give thanks to God who keeps my breath.
Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
- Walter S. Landor
Life once asked death, “Why do people love me so, and despise you so badly?”
Death replied with this, “Because you are a beautiful lie, while I’m the ugly truth.”
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Marcus Aurelius
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland