Death Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

— Solon

Better to be happy than wise.

— John Heywood

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

— Francis Quarles

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort…

— Herodotus

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

— Solon

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

— Plautus

Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.

— Sophocles

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

— Enrique Iglesias

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

— Solon

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

— Anonymous