We all know how our stories will end, yet some of us spend all our lives dreading it, while others have made their peace with it. We’re talking about death, and this is our post dedicated to death quotes. Its purpose isn’t to make you feel morbid or afraid but rather to show you what wise people had to say about it. Soon, you’ll see that death can be somewhat inspiring, and there’s nothing to be afraid of.
Historically, people have had (and still have) various ways to deal with the inevitable. Take, for instance, the Victorians and their pictures with the dead and their fascination with mourning jewelry - now it all seems pretty morbid, but at the time and with that mortality rate, it all seemed well and fine. Or take the Irish tradition of celebrating the deceased’s life for one last time. There’s drinking, there’s singing, there are tears, but ultimately it is cherishing life. And now think about the Westerners of this day - wakes and funerals are pretty ominous affairs, where everyone’s silent and consumed by their own thoughts about the one who has passed. So see, we all have our different ways of dealing with the termination of life, and none of them are lesser than the others. Same with these death quotes - some are celebrating the end, quite a few despise it, but all of them acknowledge the fact that we’ll all end up the same.
So now it is time for you to scroll six feet down and check out the inspiring quotes for yourself. We’d like to guarantee that these intelligent quotes will inspire you to live your life to the fullest, but, as we all well know, different people - different thoughts. However, vote for the life and death quotes that you’d keep closest to your heart and tell us what you think about them, too.
#1
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” – Benjamin Franklin
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#2
“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 forgive life, to be at peace.” – Oscar Wilde
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#3
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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#4
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk
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"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
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“He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.” – Giovanni Falcone
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“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.” - Jo Nesbo
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#9
"We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening." - Zhuangzi
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#10
“It's better to burn out than to fade away.” - Neil Young
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#11
"Since we’re all going to die, it’s obvious that when and how don’t matter." - Albert Camus
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“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Mahatma Gandhi
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#14
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci
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“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” - Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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#16
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” – Charles Bukowski
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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"Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived." - Jet Black
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#20
“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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