Quotes about life and death
656 quotes from 337 people
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, Apology
J. K. Rowlingborn 1965Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xixWhen we die, our bodies are buried. When we live, our souls are buried.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Saul Bellow1915–2005Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus1913–1960“Intuitions” (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)
