Reflections on death often bring us closer to the heart of life itself. These voices — from philosophers to actors, from humorists to poets — remind us that endings are also beginnings, and that love and meaning can transcend even our final horizon. 🌕✨

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn’t have to talk to you. ~ Katharine Hepburn

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Death ends a life, but not a relationship. ~ Jack Lemmon

Be of good hope in the face of death... no evil can befall a good man either in life or death. ~ Socrates

Death is nature’s way of saying, Your table’s ready. ~ Robin Williams

Dying is a very simple thing... the people at home suffer a thousand times more. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Death is a graduation... then we’re allowed to graduate. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Death is birthing into another realm. ~ Therese Schroeder-Sheker

Death is what makes life an event. ~ Francis Ford Coppola

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat. ~ Jean Anouilh

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared... ~ Winston Churchill

Nor do I regret... I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home. ~ Cicero

I personally want to do death in the active... be doing something when it comes. ~ Christopher Hitchens

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. ~ Thomas Mann

Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. ~ Seneca