Death Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Seneca

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus



Then contemplate (O man!) the memorials of Allah’s Mercy! — how He gives life to the earth after its death: verily the Same will give life to the men who are dead: for He has power over all things.
Koran

Life and Death are indeed changes of great moment’, answered Confucius, ‘but they cannot affect his mind. Heaven and earth may collapse, but his mind will remain. Being indeed without flaw, it will not share the fate of all things. It can control the transformation of things, while preserving its source intact’.
Chuang Tze

As to the soul of man after death, it remains in the degree of purity to which it has evolved during life in the physical body, and after it is freed from the body it remains plunged in the ocean of God’s Mercy.
Abdu’l-Bahá

What death is more wretched than to flee from the Source of everlasting life?
Bahá’u’lláh


Men flow into life, and ebb into death.
Tao Te Ching

The first breath is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller

The play is the tragedy "Man"And its hero the conqueror, Worm.
Edgar Allen Poe

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.
Homer (Illiad)

Death's brother, Sleep.
Virgil

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.
Socrates

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?
Chuang Tzu

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.
Albert Camus

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture



Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.
Plato

You are now like a withered leaf;
the messengers of death have come near you.
You stand at the threshold of your departure.
Have you made provision for your journey?
Buddha

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
John 5:24

In the way of righteousness is life: and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Proverbs 12:28

But whereso any doeth all his deeds
Renouncing self for Me, full of Me, fixed
To serve only the Highest, night and day
Musing on Me- him will I swiftly lift
Forth from life’s ocean of distress and death,
Whose soul clings fast to Me.
from the Bhagavad Gita

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain


Giver of vital breath, of power and vigour, he whose commandments all the Gods acknowledge -.
The Lord of death, whose shade is life immortal. What God shall we adore with our oblation?
from the Vedas