26 famous quotes about death to remind you of being human

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“Everybody is going to be dead one day, just give them time.”

― Neil Gaiman, English novelist and author of comic books and graphic novels.

“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, rock guitarist, singer and songwriter.

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

― Mark Twain, American author and humorist.

“You only live twice:

Once when you’re born

And once when you look death in the face.”

― Ian Fleming, the onetime spy who created James Bond.

“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”

― Haruki Murakami, contemporary Japanese writer.

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”

― Isaac Asimov, American author and professor of biochemistry.

“It’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

― Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician.

“Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.”

― Madeleine L’Engle, American author of young-adult fiction.

“It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.”

― Mitch Albom, Detroit newspaper columnist and author.

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer.

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”

― Margaret Mitchell, author of ‘Gone with the Wind.’

“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

― Joseph Stalin, former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”

― Franz Kafka, German-language author.

“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.”

― Kahlil Gibran, artist and poet.

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.”

― Isabel Allende, Chilean-American writer.

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”

― William S. Burroughs, author and voice of the Beat Generation.

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”

― Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc.

“We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.”

― Max Lucado, Christian author and preacher.

“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”

― Leo Babauta, writer and Zen blogger.

“Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.”

― Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.

“I’d rather be dead than sing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m 45.”

— Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones.

“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”

— Katharine Hepburn, American actress.

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

— George Eliot, English author.

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor.

“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“What do we say to the Lord of Death? ‘Not today.’ “

― George R.R. Martin, American author.