Death and Dying Sayings and Quotes

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
Norman Cousins

"And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
St. Francis of Assisi, from Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

"Thinking and talking about death need not be morbid; they may be quite the opposite. Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and accepting death erases this shadow."
Lily Pincus

"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over."
Jim Morrison

"Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."
Author Unknown, from DREAMS

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die."
Thomas Campbell

"Life is a brief intermission, between birth and death, enjoy it."
M.K. Soni, from LIFE IS LIKE A MULTIFACETED PRISM

"I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"A day grows old as we do. Do not wish death upon it. Let it live, let it love, and only then should you let it rest in peace."
Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?"
Buddha

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."
Henry Van Dyke

"Death is the gate of life."
St. Bernard of Clairvaux

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
James F. Byrnes

"Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul."
Juliette Adam