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 is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs
If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word “freedom” out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
Martin Luther King Jr
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone dies eventually, whether they have power or not. That’s why you need to think about what you’ll accomplish while you’re alive.
Mary Macbeth
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Buddha
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson
What would life be worth if there were no death? Who would enjoy the sun if it never rained? Who would yearn for the day if there were no night?
Glenn Ringtved
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Sadguru
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs.
Leo Tolstoy
A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue.
George Orwell
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Brontë
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
Michael Landon
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.
Terry Pratchett
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
Lao Tzu
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J.K. Rowling
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Haruki Murakami