50 Death Quotes to Show How Precious Life Really Is

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix

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

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett

“I don’t want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“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 kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak

“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling

“Even death has a heart.”
― Markus Zusak

“Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.”
― Rick Riordan

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe

“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

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu

“Many people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
― Thomas Campbell

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”
― Markus Zusak

“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
― Terry Pratchett

“But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”
― Sarah J. Maas

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
― Terry Pratchett

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons, even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.”
― Lili St. Crow

“In the end, it wasn’t death that surprised her, but the stubbornness of life.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
― Jo Nesbo

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone”
― Richard Puz

“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
― Michael Crichton

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
― Rob Sheffield

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus

“Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.”
― Stephenie Meyer

“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
― Albert Camus

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
― Joseph Stalin

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right”
― Steve Jobs

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn’t. It continues and is ever-changing.”
― Jandy Nelson

“We’d stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You’d think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn’t.”
― Rick Yancey

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is an eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“Things die. But they don’t always stay dead. Believe me, I know.”
― Richelle Mead

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”
― Shannon Alder

“Life is too short when you think of the length of death”
― Sean Mangan

“Death, so-called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
― William Shakespeare

“Life is too short when you think of the length of death”
― Sean Mangan

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