Death quotes

Explore profound insights and thought-provoking perspectives on the inevitable journey of Death – from famous individuals who unraveled its mysteries to inspiring words that offer solace and wisdom.

I've had the same will since I was 8 years old. Upon my death, I will transfer all of my belongings to the man or animal who has killed me.

- Ron Swanson

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The more you learn, the harder the lessons get.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

However healthy you think you are, remember that vegetarians die too.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Beauty gets the attention, personality gets the heart.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

- Emily Dickinson

Fortune befriends the bold.

- Emily Dickinson

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

- Thomas Wolfe

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

- Plato

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

- Carl Clinton Van Doren