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Death Quotes
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Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction. Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child with her cloth, cover thou him. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Call no man happy till he is dead. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
But when the sun in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through glory's morning gate, And walked in Paradise. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space, In twilight land, in no man's land, Two hurrying shapes met face to face And bade each other stand. "And who are you?" cried one, a-gape, Shuddering in the glimmering light. "I know not," said the second shape, "I only died last night." (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
The white sail of his soul has rounded The promontory--death. (Quote by - William Alexander, Earl of Stirling)
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod. (Quote by - Aristophanes)
He who died at Azan sends This to comfort all this friends: Faithful friends! It lies I know Pale and white and cold as snow; And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!" Weeping at the feet and head. I can see your falling tears, I can hear your sighs and prayers; Yet I smile and whisper this: I am not the thing you kiss. Cease your tears and let it lie; It was mine--it is not I. (Quote by - Edwin Arnold)
Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit The vasty hall of death. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. (Quote by - Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld)
It is only the dead who do not return. (Quote by - Bertrand Barere)
To die will be an awfully big adventure. (Quote by - Sir James Matthew Barrie)
But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van, The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man. (Quote by - Michael Joseph Barry)
Death hath so many doors to let out life. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so Need lamentation for him? (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. (Quote by - Bible)
If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? (Quote by - Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
The idea is to die young as late as possible. (Quote by - Ashley Montagu)
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. (Quote by - John Muir)
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. (Quote by - Charles Sanders Peirce)
There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. (Quote by - Kenneth Patchen)
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. (Quote by - William Penn)
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality. (Quote by - Jacques Rigaut)
Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. (Quote by - David Sarnoff)
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. (Quote by - John Taylor)
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. (Quote by - Leonardo Da Vinci)
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. (Quote by - Percival Arland Ussher)
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. (Quote by - A. Sachs)
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. (Quote by - William Mitford)
I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this. (Quote by - Hugh Hamilton)
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now! (Quote by - Thomas F. Healey)
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking. (Quote by - Sister Helen Prejean)
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. (Quote by - John James Ingalls)
Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. (Quote by - Walter Scott)
To stop sinning suddenly. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. (Quote by - Henry Van Dyke)
It is never death because they live in your heart foever. (Quote by - Lauren)
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. (Quote by - Seneca)
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. (Quote by - Proverb)
He that lives to forever, never fears dying. (Quote by - William Penn)
I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Now comes the mystery. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Most people would rather die than think: many do. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Tis after death that we measure men. (Quote by - James Barron Hope)
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. (Quote by - Joyce Cary)
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)