28 Profoundly Beautiful Quotes About Life And Death

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” —Peter Pan

“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?” —Epicurus

“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death” —Samuel Butler

 “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.”

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” -―Ernest Hemingway

“Life asked death, ‘Why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.” -—Author unknown

“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.”-—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series