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As a human, death is inevitable. It’s something that we all must face sooner or later. Yet people haven’t stopped trying to predict the exact date and time of when they will finally kick the bucket – even going so far as to create a device that can forecast your day of death! It’s not likely that you know someone who knows precisely how, where, and when they will die, but if you’re curious.
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The end of life is a time when people start realizing that they are going to die, and many come to terms with the finality of it. In their last days, people will often reflect on their lives and share all their experiences about what life has given them so far, making for some inspirational quotes about death and dying, as well as life quotes. The following list has the best quotes about death, covering both sides of the spectrum – from bittersweet to angry, beautiful, and encouraging.
Table of Contents
- 1 Inspirational Death Quotes About Losing a Loved One, Dying, Grief
- 1.1 Loss of Mother Quotes
- 1.2 Quotes About Death Of A Father
- 1.3 Loss of Husband or Wife Quotes
- 1.4 Loss of Child Quotes
- 1.5 Quotes About Losing A Friend To Death
- 2 Comforting Quotes About The Death Of A Loved One
- 3 Quotes About Life And Death
- 4 Missing You Quotes
Inspirational Death Quotes About Losing a Loved One, Dying, Grief
Loss of Mother Quotes
“The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.” ― Yolanda King
“She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.” ― Ariana Dancu
“I want to be all used up when I die” – George Bernard Shaw
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life” – Corazon Aquino
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
“Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.” – Mother Teresa
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
Losing a mother doesn’t happen in a moment. It takes years to appreciate the impact of what’s gone. ― Lisa-Jo Baker
A mother’s love is unlike any other: It lasts forever. ― Anonymous
She fought the good fight; she finished the race; she kept the faith. ― Based on II Timothy 4:7
During the eulogy [of my mother], I found myself saying, “Now I am an orphan. My brothers and sister are orphans.” Even as I said those words, I felt that they were surprising. The word orphan usually connotes helplessness. But I, my brothers and sister was married, had families of our own. We were not helpless. We were adults in the middle of our own lives. Nevertheless, I felt orphaned. And years later, I still feel so. The death of a parent changes one’s life in practical and abstract ways. I don’t think that one ever stops missing a deceased parent. ― Marc D. Angel, On the Death of a Parent
“Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.” – Desmond Morris
Quotes About Death Of A Father
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ― Bessie Anderson Stanley
He fought the good fight; he finished the race; he kept the faith. ― Based on II Timothy 4:7
His death diminishes us all. ― Derived from John Donne
I should like my epitaph to say, ‘He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh.’ ― Reverend W. Awdry
Once the glue of the family passes away, holidays just aren’t the same anymore. ― Anonymous
The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched. ― Erin Banks
The steps of a man are established by the Lord when he delights in his way. ― Psalm 37:23
My father took to his grave the short-sleeved, beer-swilling men of summer, big bellies, raucous laughter, pipe smoke, and the aroma of cigars. My daddy is really gone and his vacant place is my cold, hard border. As always, my life is framed by his absence. ― Bebe Moore Campbell, Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad
Sometimes the strong die, too. ― Louis Gosset Jr.
Loss of Husband or Wife Quotes
He was my North, my South, my East, and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever;
I was wrong. ― W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues
We were together. I forget the rest. ― Walt Whitman
“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it’s what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”― Cecelia Ahern
“I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I feel the loss more than I had thought I should… Without my wishing it she chose to lose herself in me, and the result was she became truly my better half. ― Mahatma Ghandi, on the passing of his wife Kasturba
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.” – Henry van Dyke
All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. ― Lyndon Baines Johnson, in his first speech to Congress after the death of JFK
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
If every wife was happy with a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can. ― Anne Bradstreet, To My Dear and Loving Husband
And to us here, ah! she remains
A lovely memory.
Until Eternity;
She came, she loved, and then she went away. ― Angelina Weld Grimké, To Keep the Memory Of Charlotte Forten Grimké
I will not hide my grief, as I did not hide my love. ― Anonymous
For the rest of my life, I will search for moments full of you. ― Anonymous
For a season there must be a pain –
For a little, little space
I shall lose the sight of her face,
Take back the old life again
While She is at rest in her place. ― Rudyard Kipling, The Widower
Loss of Child Quotes
I’d rather miss you forever than never have met you. – Sara Millen
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
With the death of a husband, you lose your present; with the death of a parent, the past; but with the death of a child, you lose your future. – Shalom Levy
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief. – William Cullen Bryant
The reality is that we don’t forget, move on, and have closure. But rather we honor, we remember and incorporate our deceased children and siblings into our lives in a new way. In fact, keeping memories of your loved one alive in your mind and heart is an important part of your healing journey. – Harriet Schiff, The Bereaved Parent
Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Epitaph on an Infant
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form. – Shakespeare, King John
There is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world. – Anonymous
Oh, when a mother meets on high
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fears,
The day of woe, the watchful night,
For all her sorrow, all her tears,
Any over-payment of delight? – Robert Southey, The Curse of Kehama
Life went on,
But it was
Never the
Same
Again. – David Jones
Grief is the art of living after your heart is ripped out of your body. – Anonymous
Quotes About Losing A Friend To Death
Do not try to comfort your friend while his deceased relative is not yet buried. – Ethics of the Fathers (4:18)
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. – Jean Cameron
Death ends a life, not a relationship. – Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. – Cicero
We are not friends
because of the laughs
we spend
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but the tears
we save – Nikki Giovanni, Jr., A Poem of Friendship
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Come, you disconsolate, where’er you languish;
come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;
earth has no sorrows that heaven cannot heal. – Thomas Moore, Come Ye Disconsolate
When we ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather share our pain… That is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen
If I can see the pain in your eyes, then share with me your tears. If I can see the joy in your eyes, then share with me your smile. – Santosh Kalwar
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C.S. Lewis
Be the things you loved most about the people who are gone. – Anonymous
Comforting Quotes About The Death Of A Loved One
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with; Nothing brings it all to life like an old mixtape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.” – Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist” – Stewart Alsop
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell
“There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.” – Shel Silverstein, Every Thing On It
“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it ’til it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” – Henry David Thoreau
“When I think of death, and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the idea that a day will dawn when I no longer be among those living in this valley of strange humor.
I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else.
I find it impossible to let a friend or relative go into that country to no return.
Disbelief becomes my close companion, and anger follows in its wake.
I answer the heroic question ‘Death, where is thy sting?’ with ‘It is here in my heart and mind and memories.’” – Maya Angelou, When I Think of Death (See more Top 100+ Best Maya Angelou Quotes To Elevate Your Perspective)
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“Death is beautiful when seen to be a law and not an accident.” – Henry David Thoreau
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That this heart of mine embraces
All-day through.” – Billie Holiday, I’ll Be Seeing You
“One more day
One more time
One more sunset, maybe I’d be satisfied
But then again
I know what it would do
Leave me wishing still, for one more day with you.” – Diamond Rio
“Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and you’ll never walk alone.” – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days…” – John Green, The Fault In Our Stars
“When we have joy we crave to share; We remember them.” – Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer
“It’s so curious; One can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.” – Colette
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller
“At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.” – Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer
“On this bald hill, the new year hones its edge.
Faceless and pale as china
The round sky goes on minding its business.
Your absence is inconspicuous,
Nobody can tell what I lack.” – Sylvia Plath, Parliament Hill Fields
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” – Terry Pratchett
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” – J.M. Barrie
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built of a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Quotes About Life And Death
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” ― Mark Twain
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves” – Rabindranath Tagore
“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.” – Thomas Hobbes, his last words
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives” – Andrew Sachs
“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order” – David Gerrold
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“I would always look for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, ‘Look: She existed.’” – Meghan O’Rourke, Story’s End
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace” – Oscar Wilde
“To die will be an awfully big adventure” – J.M. Barrie
“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland
“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
“It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” – Oliver Sacks
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.” — Francis Bacon
“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“14 years.
My longest relationship.
My only experience of maternal love.
My constant companion.
My best friend.
Duck.” – Sarah Silverman on her dog, Duck
“They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time” – Banksy
“Ain’t no shame in holding on to grief… as long as you make room for other things too.” – “Bubbles,” The Wire
“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.” – George Eliot
“There is only one god and his name is Death, and there is only one thing we say to Death: ‘Not today’.” – Syrio Forel (Games Of Thrones)
“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another” – Ernest Hemingway
“Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today. I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.” – Mariska Hargity
“The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart: The secret anniversaries of the heart.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Where you used to be,
there is a hole in the world,
which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime,
and falling in at night.
I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.” – Bertolt Brecht
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” – Anais Nin
“Look closely and you will see almost everyone carrying bags of cement on their shoulders.
“The idea is to die young as late as possible. ” -Ashley Montagu
That’s why it takes courage to get out of bed in the morning and climb into the day.” – Edward Hirsch
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion to death.”- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.” – Korean Proverb
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.” – Terry Pratchett
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.” – Terry Pratchett
“If I die before you
which is all but certain
then in the moment
before you will see me
become someone dead
in a transformation
as quick as a shooting star’s
I will cross over to you
and ask you to carry
not only your own memories
but mine too until you
too lie down and erase us
both together into oblivion.” – Galway Kinnell
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Every man dies – not every man really lives” – William Ross Wallace
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will” – Chuck Palahniuk
“By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life” – Robert Greene
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone” – Harriet Beecher-Stowe
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” – Edgar Allan Poe
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“When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows.” – Martin Luther King Jr
“Death never takes a wise man by surprise; he is always ready to go” – Jean de la Fontaine
“Do not seek death. But do not fear it either. There cannot be life without death, it is inescapable.” – Keisei Tagami
Missing You Quotes
When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind. – Anonymous
It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply. – Anonymous
Memories are smoke
lips we can’t kiss
hands we can’t hold
will never be
enough for us. – Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Rites of Passage
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide. – Edna St Vincent Millay, Time does not bring relief
The people who think there is a time limit for grief have never lost a piece of their hearts. – Anonymous
#quotes about cancer death
“When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.” – Stuart Scott
“When I think of your love and strength, the guilt over your death lifts off my heart and flies away.”
“Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five” – Benjamin Franklin
“When you were diagnosed with cancer, I gladly became your caregiver to show my gratitude for all the care you’d given to me.”
“I set myself free of the pain and guilt, knowing I did all I could.”
“As wicked as cancer is, it gave us time to say all those things people regret they never got to say to a loved one.”
“Deep in my heart, I accept that your death to cancer was not my fault.”
“When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t” – Ram Dass
“As the caregiver, I did everything I could with every act born of my love for you.”
“Once I recognize that I don’t control life, I set myself free of the pain in my soul.”
“Being with you as you suffered from cancer was the hardest thing we ever did together.”
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu
“You never once allowed cancer to rob you of who you are!”
“Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all — the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.”— Mark Twain
“Because life is fragile and death inevitable, we must make the most of each day” – Thomas S. Monson
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” – Edvard Munch
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” – Oscar Wilde
“All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.” – Edward Young
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.” – William Faulkner
“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.”― Hans Christian Andersen
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson
“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter” – Winston Churchill (See more Best Famous Winston Churchill Quotes Never Give Up [2022])
“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas And death shall have no dominion
“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” – Maya Angelou
“Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death.” – Paulo Coelho
“Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.” – Sogyal Rinpoche
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid” – Langston Hughes
“I vow to forever think of you pre-cancer and never post-cancer.”
“When you’ve told someone that you’ve left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once” – Samuel Butler
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see” – Helen Keller
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose” – Steve Jobs
“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” – William Saroyan
“How people die remains in the memory of those who live on” – Dame Cicely Saunders
“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. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new.” – Steve Jobs
“You needn’t die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end. ” – Stephen King
“If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die” – Stephen King
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly – that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp” – Anne Lamott
“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” – Samuel Johnson
“To die will be an awfully big adventure” – J.M. Barrie
“The truth I have been seeking – this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So – we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace” – Bruce Lee
“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
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