Quotes about Death

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods.

Even though we knew it was coming, we’re always surprised by the astonishing amount of pain and sorrow you feel when someone dies.

Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.

Death isn't the end. It's just the beginning of the next chapter.

Remember you must die.

Death is dealt with alone.

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?

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—The Stillness in the Room.

Sometimes, you don’t have to die to lose someone.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

We are not loved by those who expect us to become their masters.

Death is a dialogue between the spirit and the dust.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.

Death's terror is the spell of all, and who can say he scorns it when it comes.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

To rest is to rust.

Life is a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Death is the enemy. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Pale death with impartial step knocks at the poor man's cottage and the palaces of kings.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

The Bustle in a House the Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon Earth.

Death is the great equalizer; it comes for us all.

I’ve seen a dying eye run round and round a room in search of something as it died.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

To die, to sleep—To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Death is the mother of beauty.