Do you sometimes catch yourself pondering about the purpose of life and death? Or have you recently lost a beloved family member that was dear to you? No matter if we like it or not, death is a part of life. Everything that was given the gift of living will eventually pass away. To help you cope with the tragedies of life, we have created the following collection of inspirational death quotes that will lift your spirits. Be sure to also have a look at some of the most inspirational quotes about life.
The death of a family member or a good friend is perhaps one of the saddest moments we experience in life. If you are working through a recent loss, you know full well how many challenges life throws at those who grieve. During these painful moments, it seems as if all hope is gone.
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
J.K. Rowling
When it feels like there is no light at the end of the tunnel, it is important to have people around you who can lift you up. Similarly, it is important to find ways to cope with what happened. For instance, one important realization in the mourning process is to become aware of how blessed you’ve been that you have gotten to know the person who has died. Just imagine how less joyful your life would have been without this person at your side.
This collection of insightful death quotes will help the healing process
Another important step in the healing process is to find ways to celebrate the life of the loved one you lost. Remember the good times and happy moments you shared with the person who passed away.
100 Profound Death Quotes That Celebrate Life
Dealing with death is incredibly burdensome in many different ways. The important thing to realize is that you are definitely alone. Many others have suffered from painful losses as well. Among these people are many eloquent writers, novelists, philosophers, and poets. These individuals have found uplifting words and encouraging death quotes that will lift you up. Enjoy reading!
Here’s our collection of inspirational death quotes
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
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“Love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
Richard Puz
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“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
George Eliot
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“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
Helen Keller
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“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”
Rob Sheffield
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“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
Dean Koontz
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“Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.”
Ann Druyan
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
Thomas Mann
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“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched.”
J.K. Rowling
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“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”
Haruki Murakami
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“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
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“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
Suzanne Collins
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“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”
Leo Babauta
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“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
José N. Harris
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“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
Kenzaburo Oe
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“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
J.K. Rowling
These death quotes will give you courage
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“Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
Jandy Nelson
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“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
Elizabeth Gilbert
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“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
Thomas Campbell
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“If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again.”
Jeaniene Frost
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“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”
Patrick Swayze
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“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
Dylan Thomas
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“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
Anne Lamott
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“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it’s what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”
Cecelia Ahern
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“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”
Peter Jackson
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“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”
John O’Donohue
Death quotes like this help you to move on
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“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering.”
Helen Keller
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“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it but also the father who wipes away the tears.”
Criss Jami
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“Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
Garth Stein
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“We are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.”
Albert Einstein
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“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone – you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
Alyson Noel
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“It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death – ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.”
James Baldwin
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“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
Jeanette Winterson
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain
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“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
J.K. Rowling
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“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
Mitch Albom
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“In the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
Donna Tartt
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“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
J.M. Barrie
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“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
Haruki Murakami
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
Steve Jobs
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“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first, it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.”
Jodi Picoult
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“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
Elizabeth Berg
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“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be.”
Nicholas Sparks
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“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again.”
Laurell K. Hamilton
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“Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren’s will be. But we learn to live in that love.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
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“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
Victor Hugo
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“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
Daniel Keyes
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Anaïs Nin
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“When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
William Shakespeare
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“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”
Maria V. Snyder
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“You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.”
Kiera Cass
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“It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire’s fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.”
Kristin Cashore
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“That’s what literature is. It’s the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
Connie Willis
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“You should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It’s too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.”
Haruki Murakami
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“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn’t. It continues and is ever-changing.”
Jandy Nelson
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“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
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“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
Sarah Dessen
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“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
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“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
Terry Pratchett
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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain
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“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
H. Rider Haggard
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“The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
James Patterson
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“Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson.”
Susan Gordon Lydo
These death quotes are full of wisdom
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“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
George R.R. Martin
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“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”
Jodi Picoult
73.
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
Richard Adams
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
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“Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”
Walt Disney
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“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
Cassandra Clare
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“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”
Heather Brewer
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“The connections we make in the course of a life – maybe that’s what heaven is.”
Fred Rogers
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“If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. „
Leo Tolstoy
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“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
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“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have to make up as you go.”
Katharine Weber
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“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
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“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
Rumi
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“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there are love and memory, there is no true loss.”
Cassandra Clare
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“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you’re faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”
James Patterson
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“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.”
John Lennon
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“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”
Rebecca Solnit
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“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”
Neil Gaiman
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“Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”
Mitch Albom
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“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.”
Pat Schweibert
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“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”
Bob Dylan
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“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
Terry Pratchett
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“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be.”
Emily Jane Brontë
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“Grief does not change you. It reveals you.”
John Green
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“And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death – but it’s more peaceful.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
Jo Nesbo
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“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
Haruki Murakami
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“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen
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“The end is in the beginning.”
Samuel Beckett
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“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”
Carlos Castaneda
I hope you enjoyed this collection of inspirational death quotes. Feel free to share some of these quotes with a person who is struggling with grief over a lost one.
Stay victorious!
