Quotes about death

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life.

Samuel Smiles

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

Charles Bukowski

In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this.

Marcus Aurelius

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

Ovid

I don’t mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

Aesop

I can’t do anything to death, doctor’s orders.

Woody Allen

Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.

Neale Donald Walsch

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.

Socrates

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

Walt Whitman

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

Walter Scott