Death Quotes

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

- Buddha

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... Would you slow down? Or speed up?

- Chuck Palahniuk

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mode of death is sadder than death itself.

- Latin Proverb

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

- Sogyal Rinpoche

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

- Kahlil Gibran

Death was looked upon as a bitter, inevitable separation, which must be faced with a manly separation.

- Herbert Lockyer

Death produced a state of gloom and emptiness in which life and hope were to be left behind.

- Herbert Lockyer