147 Best Death Quotes

Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.

Isabella Swan: [Voice-over] Death is peaceful - easy. Life is harder.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Birth and death are not two different states, but different aspects of the same state. – Mahatma Gandhi

The day of birth is the day when death begins. – Seneca

If you have time to think of a beautiful end, then why not live beautifully until the end? – Leone

Cooper: I'm here now, Murph. I'm here.
Murph: No. No parent should have to watch their own child die. I have my kids here for me now. You go.
Cooper: Where?
Murph: Brand. She's... out there. Setting up camp. Alone, in a strange galaxy. Maybe right now, she's settling in for the long nap. By the light of our new sun. In our new home.

Isabella Swan: I'd never given much though to how I would die. But dying in place of someone I love, seems like a good way to go. I can't bring myself to regret the decisions that brought me face to face with death. They also brought me to Edward.

May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—May she wake in torment!" he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there—not in heaven—not perished—where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day.

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. – Maya Angelou

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal. – Richard Puz

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II

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

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. – Eskimo Proverb

What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

The world changes from year to year, our lives from day to day, but the love and memory of you shall never pass away.

Death ends a life, not a relationship. – Mitch Albom

The memories we make with our loved ones are the legacy we leave behind.

Gone from my sight, but never from my heart.

There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal. – Richard Puz

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. – Helen Keller

Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. – Vladimir Nabokov

We are born at the rise of the curtain, and we die with its fall. – Charlie Chaplin

A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels - loved and wanted. - Mother Teresa

They say he drowned. The boy. That he still lives in the lake. A little boy, with a... face like an angel. – Bill

I'll be right back. – Multiple Characters

You're gonna end up like the others! – Crazy Ralph

Go ahead, see if you can scare me. – Violet

I have seen the finale of thousands of lives, man. Young, old, each one so sure of their realness. That their sensory experience constituted a unique individual. Purpose drawn from a lifetime of choices. – Rust Cohle

The newspapers are gonna be tough on you. And that’s a good thing. It’s the black car that follows us all. – Rust Cohle

Death created time to grow the things that it would kill. – Rust Cohle

Hello, Danny. Come and play with us. Come and play with us, Danny. Forever... and ever... and ever. – Grady Daughters

Mama always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. – Forrest Gump

You're so close to the way you're going to be. So close to the way you're going to look forever. – Jame Gumb

You have my permission to die. – The Joker

What do we say to the God of Death? Not today. – Syrio Forel

Death is the enemy. The first enemy and the last. – Beric Dondarrion

I will die on my own terms. I decide when. I decide where. And I decide why. – Polly Gray

You only live as long as the last person who remembers you. – Dr. Robert Ford

You think you know death, but you don’t. You didn’t recognize him sitting across from you this whole time. – The Man in Black

We're all going. It's just a question of when and how. – Bobby Munson

I have not had to be courteous to a man I am about to kill. – Hannibal Lecter