Losing someone young to death is unfortunate. It may be your siblings, child, friends, or anyone who dies at an early age. The grief is unbearable, and you find life unfair and miserable.
These quotes about dying young will let you know that you are not alone in the battle, and many are battling this grief of losing their loved ones.
76 Quotes About Dying Young To Comfort You
- “If I die young bury me in satin, lay me down on a bed of roses, sink me in the river at dawn, send me away with the words of a love song.”
- “The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.”- George Howe Colt
- “Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose. But young men think it is, and we were young.”- A. E. Housman
- “The idea is to die young as late as possible.”- Ashley Montagu
- “I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.”- John Green
- “Live life to it’s fullest or it may seem like you died young.”- James Wattersmith
- “The death of a child is the single most traumatic event in medicine. To lose a child is to lose a piece of yourself.”- Dr. Burton Grebin
- “There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.”- Mitch Albom
- “Some souls are too beautiful for this world, and so they leave.”
- “Even if we die at 100, we’re still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There’s a lot of traveling and books to read and movies to see. I’m not going to squeeze it all in 85 years.” – Alexander Payne
- “The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.”- Dave Eggers
- “A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.”- Brian Williams
- “Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.”- James Dean
- “A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”- R.J. Gonzales
- “Only the good die young.”- Billy Joel
- “I like a man who’s good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.”- Mae West
- “I’d be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I’d like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.”- Brian Molko
- “Though the favorites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods.”- Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”- Arthur Wing Pinero
- “I guess that’s one good thing about dying young: you’re remembered for your purity, vigor and spontaneity. Dying young you’re remembered for your youth.”- Ryan Smithson
- “Living fast and dying young is crap if you have a chance to get better. I say good for you.”- David Shore
- “There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “So many people die young. I’m hoping that’s unintended.”- James Dye
- “Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.”- James Taylor
- “They say the Lord gives; the Lord takes away / Takes more than I’ll ever have / To understand the world today / Death and the dear of dying young.”- Michael Nieward
- “No matter how long you live, die young.”- Elbert Hubbard
- “You will not accept your child’s death until you have completed the healing. Hurt, anguish, tears, yearning, pining are part of the healing.”- Elizabeth B. Brown
- “Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.”- Douglas MacArthur
- “At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.”- Jessamyn West
- “Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.”- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence.”- Dalai Lama
- “Live fast, love hard, die young and leave a beautiful memory.” – Faron Young
- “The greatest thing in life is to die young but delay it as long as possible.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.”- Lana Del Rey
- “Parents who have just lost a child cannot believe any words of hope, They do not want to hear them yet.”- Elaine Storkey
- “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
- “Losing a child happens in many different ways. There is the loss in the womb. There are cot deaths, accidents, epidemics, malignant diseases.”- Elaine Storkey
- “Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.”- Martin Luther King, Jr
- “Dying young is the easy way out. It’s much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.” – Robert Longo
- “It doesn’t matter if life is big or not, it must be profound.” – Harshit Sharma
- “If you live life right, then dying young is not a problem.” – Joe Lewis
- “Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man.”- Mitch Albom
- “The good die young – because they see it’s no use living if you’ve got to be good.”- John Barrymore
- “If we commit to loving, we will inevitably know loss and grief.”- Megan Devine
- “The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.”- Helen Hayes
- “Death is a distant rumor to the young.”- Andrew A. Rooney
- “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson
- “Scoundrels simply don’t die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. […] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.”- Osamu Dazai
- “Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man’s back, before the old man’s face.”- Thomas Adams
- “Live a fast and profound life, else you’ll die young.” – Og Mandino
- “Live your life to the fullest potential, or you’ll die young.” – Ashley Smith
- “I want to die young at a ripe old age.”- Ashley Montagu
- “The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.” – Brother Theodore
- “Focus on the positive before you die young.” – Matt Cameron
- “Each lost child is precious. We feel each loss acutely, however we have suffered it.”- Elaine Storkey
- “But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.” – Donna Shalala
- “Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?”- Lady Flora Hastings
- Romans 8:28: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. – Bible Verse
- “He whom the Gods love dies young.”- Plautus
- “Any sense of life’s fairness must therefore account for the seeming unfairness of painful deaths, of sudden deaths, of good people dying and dying young; it must account for the unfairness of everyone dying eventually.”- Nick Luxmoore
- “If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.”- Megan Devine
- “Dying is easy, young man living is harder.”
- “I wish I could ask God why the good die young.”
- “It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.”- Mark Twain
- “It’s a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.”- Grace Paley
- “Too old to die young, and too young to grow up.” – Marty Feldman
- “It’s even harder to talk about girls who have died young: by dying, they stay young forever.” – Haruki Murakami
- “Only the young die good.”- Oliver Herford
- “If you’re going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you’d better die young.” – Alma Guillermoprieto
- “Luck can’t last a lifetime unless you die young.”- Russell Banks
- “I needed to know that death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.”- Tony O’Neill
- “I say eat fast and die young.” – Cory Monteith
- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”
- “Some are bound to die young, By dying young a person stays young in people’s memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.”
- “The good die young because God needs them.”
- “Dad, why do all the best people die? My son, when you are in a garden, which flowers do you pick? The most beautiful ones.”