Short Death Quotes:

I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.653, Delphi Classics

topic: Death, Waiting, Short Death

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Birthday, Lasts, Eternity, Memorial For Loved One, Inspirational Mourning

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

- Helen Keller

topic: Death, Rooms, Passing, Inspirational Death, Death And Dying

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Beautiful, Death, Dying, Dying Death, Beautiful Death

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Happy, Peace, Sleep, Live Life To Its Fullest, Meaningful Death

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

- Euripides

topic: Death, Tomorrow, Stills, Love Death, Beautiful Death

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Sympathy, Missing You, Death, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

- James Dean

topic: Dream, Forever, Today, Learn To Fly, Pursue Your Dreams

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

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

topic: Love, Sympathy, Death, Someone Who Is Dying, Inspirational Condolences

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Death, Children, Tree, Younger Generation, Not Afraid Of Death

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life. Rodger Rosenblatt As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Death, Sleep, Thinking, Live Life To Its Fullest, Live To The Fullest

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

- Emily Dickinson

source: "Because I could not stop for death" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

topic: Death, Spiritual, Emotional, Sympathy Card, Do Not Fear Death

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Positive, Inspiring, Death, Inspirational Buddhist, Diligent

Do not go gentle into that good night.

- Dylan Thomas

source: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

topic: Good Night, Night, Gentle, Matched, Inspirational Tattoo

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

topic: Death, Sleep, Heart, Morality In Hamlet, Mortality In Hamlet

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Beauty, Death, Bread, Short Death

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Death, Spiritual, Wind, Mourning Death, Loss Of A Loved One

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Death, Connections, Afternoon, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

- Mitch Albom

topic: Love, Death, Gone, Death Anniversary, Staying Alive

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2016). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.94, Broadview Press

topic: Inspirational, Death, Dying, Someone Who Is Dying, People Who Are Dying

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

topic: Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One, Valley Of Death, Someone Dying

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

- Willa Cather

topic: Life, Death, Spiritual, Loss Of A Loved One, Loved One Dying

Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be.

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Tattoo, Meaningful, Tomorrow May Never Come, Inspirational Tattoo, Mindful Living

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

- Jacob M. Appel

topic: Nasty, Life Is, Easy, Short Death

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

- Pliny the Elder

topic: Death, Sovereign, Human Life, Short Death

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

- Edward Young

topic: Time, Thinking, Long, Short Death

Life is short, death is forever

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Short Death