Looking for quotes about ending life? We have rounded up the best collection of end of life quotes, sayings, proverbs, captions, status, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to understand life better, and live it without baggage.
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Thinking about death is something that makes all of us uncomfortable. But the fact remains that death is the inevitable end for all which is difficult to accept. However, as the famous quote says, every end is a new beginning.
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End of life quotes in simple words guide us to reflect on the preciousness of life, find meaning in our experiences, and appreciate the beauty in every moment.
They inspire us to live with intention, love wholeheartedly, and embrace the impermanence of our journey.
These beautiful end of life quotes will inspire you in addressing the finality of it all, and show what insight it gives us regarding the journey of life itself.
End Of Life Quotes
- “Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”
- “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – Plato
- “Don’t cry because it’s over smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
- “In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
- “End of life decisions should not be made at the end of life.”
- “A moment’s beginning ends in a moment.” – Munia Khan
- “Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.” – Samuel R. Delany
- “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”- James Dean
- “The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.”- William Penn
- “The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”- Mary Oliver
- “Our worst fear isn’t the end of life but the end of memories.”- Tom Rachman
- “Life’s just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.” – Daniel C. Tomas
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”- Oscar Wilde
- “Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.”- LeCrae
- “Those who don’t want to take risks in life end up been the losers.” – Sunday Adelaja
- “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.” – The Nightvale Podcast
- “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” – Frank Herbert
- “The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” – Socrates
- “Death is not the end of life; it is the beginning of an eternal journey.” – Debasish Maidha
- “We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.” – David Searls
- “Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”- Abraham Lincoln
- “Only in cartoons and fairytales and greeting cards do endings have glitter.” – Holly Goldberg Sloan
- “It’s not what you have at the end of life, it’s what you leave behind that matters.”- Stedman Graham
- “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “I realized death isn’t the worst thing. It’s the last thing. And endings are hard, that’s all.” – Aimee Carter
- “We can view life as a meaningless journey ending in death or as an evolving spiral of life.” – Joseph Rain
- “Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.” – Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
- “Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”- John Ruskin
- “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “Like all things in life and games that we play, there simply has to come a time when it has to end.” – R.J. Torbert
- “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
- “Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.” – Aniruddha Sastikar
- “In the planning stage of a book, don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.” – Rose Tremain
- “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”- Robert Louis Stevenson
- “There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.”- Watchman Nee
- “There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.” – Richard K. Morgan
- “The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
- “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman
- “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.” – Earnest Hemingway
- “Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.”- Sri Chinmoy
- “At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away – and that would be the greatest waste of all.” – Richie Norton
- “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end.”- Gilda Radner
- “Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”- Albert Einstein
- “You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.”- Cicely Saunders
- “There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.”- Billy Graham
- “And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me – I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.” – Rachel Ward, Numbers
- “Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?”- Billy Graham
- “When you get to the end of your life, your faith, your family and your friendships will be all that matters to you. Don’t wait until then to discover that love is the only part of life that really counts.” – The Seven laws Of Love
- “At the end of life, what really matters is not what we bought but what we built; not what we got but what we shared; not our competence but our character; and not our success, but our significance. Live a life that matters. Live a life of love.”
- “Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”- Pope Paul VI
- “At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”- Mother Teresa
- “Have a conversation with your family about your end-of-life wishes while you are healthy. No one wants to have that discussion… but if you do, you’ll be giving your loved ones a tremendous gift, since they won’t have to guess what your wishes would have been, and it takes the onus of responsibility off of them.”- Jodi Picoult
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