Quotes About Life and Death- Great sayings by Great Men

A beautiful collection of quotes about life and death, which shall make us ponder for the necessity of death. Yes, death is a necessity- It leads to Moksha- the final stage of the cycle of birth and rebirth. Consider someone to be blessed with an eternal life- What happens then?There is a popular Chinese proverb which says, "Life is not a beginning and Death is not an ending." This is so true. Death is a break, an opportunity to forget the past and revive live again. We really die every night, even we have given it a name- It's sleep. These quotes might not encourage you to die, but they will encourage you to live. Don't live thinking about death, but die thinking about life. 

Our mind thinks of death, Our heart thinks of life, Our soul thinks of immortality

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.
To watch the birth and death of beings is like 
Looking at the movements of a dance. 
A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. 
Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain. 
                                                                         ~Buddha


When life is woe,
And hope is dumb,
The world says, "Go!"
The grave says, "Come!"  
                                                                       ~ Arthur Guiterman 


All that live must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.
                                                                        ~ Shakespeare
 

There's nothing certain in a man's life except this:
That he must lose it. 
                                                           ~Aeschylus, Agamemnon 


Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yew.
In quiet response:
Ah! would that I did too.
                                                                    ~Matthew Arnold

 

All God does is watch us 
And kill us when we get boring. 
 We must never, ever be boring. 
                                                                    ~Chuck  Palahniuk


You see sir; 
Death is an intellectual matter, 
But dying is pure pain.  
                                                                   ~John Steinbeck


Somebody ought to tell us, 
Right at the start of our lives,
That we are dying. Then we might live 
Life to the limit every minute of every day. 
Do it, I say, whatever you want to do, do it now.
 


All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" 
A strange complaint to come from the mouths
Of people who have had to live. 
                                                                     ~Mark Twain 


Some people are so afraid to die 
 That they never begin to live. 
                                                                  ~Henry Van Dyke 


The day which we fear as our last 
Is but the birthday of eternity.  
                                                                  ~Seneca 


Death never takes the wise man by surprise; 
He is always ready to go. 
                                                                ~Jean de La Fontaine