These are the 13 Best Death Quotes that communicate what the greatest authors have thought about death.
The truth that never vanishes, the truth that always remains, is that we are mortals and will
inevitably die someday. Death in itself is a subject that interests many cause it is wrapped
in uncertainties and unknowns. This enigma and the alluring nature of death were such that it
even pulled the writers into its grasp, and they went on to talk about it. Myriad of authors have
written about death with varied approaches towards it. Nevertheless, their sayings and quotes
are enough to haunt you and make you question your own existence. Here, we bring some of
their best death quotes! Read them below and check them out for yourself!
13 Best Death Quotes
- “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 - “Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” –
Benjamin Franklin - “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe - “Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.” – E.M Forster
- “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but
once.” – William Shakespeare - “Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a
species of the dead, and a very rare species.”– Friedrich Nietzsche - “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies
by chance.” – Jean Paul Sartre - “Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we
shall die – but this is sensuality’s cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of
things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order
to live.” – Soren Kierkegaard - “Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear
that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.” – Mitch Albom - “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.”
– Vladimir Nabokov - “They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit
later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.” – Banksy - “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” – Joseph Stalin
- “When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he
dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.” – John
Steinbeck
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