Death & Grief Quotes

Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there; I do not sleep.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every coming together a foretaste of the resurrection.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

At the end of the game, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

To be or not to be, that is the question.

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

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

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Life is a constant process of dying.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.