168 Short Quotes About Life, Death & Loss (Free Bonus PDF) | Funeral Companion (2025)

“Chase away sorrow by living.”

Melissa Marr

“For some moments in life there are no words.”

David Seltzer

“God made death so we’d know when to stop.”

Steven Stiles

“Grief is the price we pay for love”

Queen Elizabeth II

“He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.”

Giovanni Falcone

“Life has to end. Love doesn’t.”

Mitch Albom

“The death of a beloved is an amputation”

C.S. Lewis

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

Pierre Auguste Renoir

“There is no death. Only a change of worlds.”

Chief Seattle

“A man is not completely born until he is dead.”

Benjamin Franklin

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream”

-Euripides

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

William Penn

“Death ends a life, not a relationship “

Jack Lemmon

“Death is a distant rumor to the young.”

Andrew A. Rooney

“Death makes equal the high and low.”

John Heywood

“Death is never an apology.”

Soul King

“Death pays all debts.”

William Shakespeare

“Death takes no bribes”

Benjamin Franklin

“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Dylan Thomas

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Thomas Moore

“Even trees do not die without a groan.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”

Tom Stoppard

“Everyone dies. But not everyone really lives.”

William Wallace

“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Give me liberty or give me death.”

Patrick Henry

“Grief sucks.”

Everyone Ever

“He who is not busy being born is busy dying”

Bob Dylan

“I don’t want to die without any scars.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“I want to be all used up when I die.”

George Bernard Shaw

“In my end is my beginning.”

Mary, Queen of Scots

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Neil Young

“Life has more meaning in the face of death.”

Robert Greene

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

Katharine Hepburn

“Life without an ideal is spiritual death.”

Emma Goldman

“No one here gets out alive.”

Jim Morrison

“Only love and death will change all things.”

Khalil Gibran

“People living deeply have no fear of death “

Anaïs Nin

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

Ashley Montagu

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”

Franz Kafka

“The only cure for grief is action.”

George Henry Lewes

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.”

Janet Fitch

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

Jack Kornfield

“Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.”

William Shakespeare

“To die will be an awfully big adventure”

Peter Pan

“When you are sorrowful, look again.”

Khalil Gibran

“A life that touches others goes on forever.”

Unknown

“All things grow with time, except grief.”

Jewish proverb

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

Kenji Miyazawa

“All men think that all men are mortal but themselves”

Edward Young

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

G.K. Chesterton

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

DR. SEUSS

“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”

Corazon Aquino

“Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.”

Desmond Morris

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

Cesare Pavese

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”

C.S. Lewis

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

Charlotte Brontë

“As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

Cassandra Clare

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

C.S. Lewis

“He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds”

Psalm 147:3

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

C.S. Lewis

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”

Buddha

“Love the people God gave you because one day, He’ll take them back.”

Becky Kinder

“Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted”

Matthew 5:4

“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life”

Bertolt Brecht

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Do not think of me as gone. I am with you still in each new dawn. “

Native American Poem

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

Arthur Miller

“I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?”

Arthur Schnitzler

“No matter where you go you will always be in my heart.”

Anthony T. Hincks

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

Arthur Golden

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains”

Anne Frank

“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”

Amelia Burr

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

Aeschylus

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

A.A. Milne

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”

Emily Dickinson

“Life without an ideal is spiritual death.”

Emma Goldman

“Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.”

forrest Church

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

Emily Dickinson

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

George Eliot

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities”

George R.R. Martin

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

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Haruki Murakami

“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was”

Hebrew Proverb

“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat”

Henry David Thoreau

“Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”

Henry Van Dyke

“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”

Henry Ward Beecher

“Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.”

Horace

“The song has ended but the melody lingers on.”

Irving Berlin

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

J.K. Rowling

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

J.K. Rowling

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

J.M. Barrie

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

J.R.R. Tolkien”

“Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other.”

Jandy Nelson

“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”

Jean de La Fontaine

“Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.”

Joanna Lumley

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days…”

John Green”

“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.”

Joshua Wisenbaker

“Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.”

Julia Ormond

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.”

Kathryn Orzech

“When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

Khalil Gibran

“When a child dies, you bury the child in your heart.”

Korean Proverb

“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love”

Kristina McMorris

“No art is possible without a dance with death.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”

Latoya Alston

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”

Laurie Halse Anderson

“Those we love don’t go away, they sit beside us every day.”

Liane Moriarty

“Loss can remind us that life itself is a gift.”

Louise Hay and David Kessler

“Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were!”

Ludwig Jacobowski

“You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.”

Mahatma Gandhi”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature’s delight.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.”

Mary Elizabeth Frye

“As soon as you’ll realize it was a gift, you’ll be free. “

Maxime Lagacé

“If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.”

Megan Devine

“If love and death did not exist, tears would not exist as well!”

Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.”

Meister Eckhart

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.”

Michael Landon

“All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”

Michael McDowell

“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”

Michael Ondaatje

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day”

Mitch Albom

“Deep down inside we always seek for our departed loved ones”

Munia Khan

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.”

Norman Cousins

“When I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed.”

-Ovid

“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.”

Pat Schweiber

“Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.”

Prateeksha Malik

“Death” is never an end, but a To Be Continued…”

-Renée Chae

“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”

Robert Anton Wilson

“A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

Rossiter W. Raymond

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form”

Rumi

“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”

Samuel Butler

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

Seneca

“He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.”

Sir Henry Taylor

“Death – the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.”

Sir Walter Scott

“Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“The dead never truly die. They simply change form”

Suzy Kassem

“When we have joy we crave to share; We remember them.”

Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die”

Thomas Campbell

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. “

Thomas Mann

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

Thornton Wilder

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Person

“Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.”

Unknown

“The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”

Unknown

“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”

Unknown

“Farewell, my love, until we meet again someday, somewhere.”

Unknown

“The loss is unmeasurable but so is the love left behind.”

Unknown

“When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know”

Unknown

“Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us every day.”

Unknown

“And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.”

Unknown

“With sympathy, thinking of you at this sad time and sending love.”

Unknown

“You may be gone from my sight, but you are never gone from my heart”

Unknown

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

Unknown

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”

Victor Hugo

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

Viktor E. Frankl

“We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.”

Voltaire

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

Walter Scott

“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”

Willa Cather

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

William Penn

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

William Shakespeare

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

William Shakespeare

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Winston Churchill

“I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

Woody Allen

“We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening.”

Zhuangzi