Quote: The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: I want to be all used up when I die. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. Author: Dean Smith American College Basketball Coach
Quote: Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: For the dead there are no more toils. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. Author: Muriel Spark 1918-, British Novelist
Quote: When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: In my end is my beginning. Author: Mary Stuart 1916-, British Novelist
Quote: It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
Quote: Authority forgets a dying king. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: God's finger touched him and he slept. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist
Quote: Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. Author: Paul Theroux 1941-, American Novelist, Travel Writer
Quote: Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day. Author: Dylan Thomas 1914-1953, Welsh Poet
Quote: Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. Author: Dylan Thomas 1914-1953, Welsh Poet
Quote: Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
Quote: Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator
Quote: At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. Terrified, you will flee from the radiance. Try to submerge it is an obstacle blocking the path of liberation. yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the boundless light of this true reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved! Author: Tibetan c. 780 AD, Tibetan Buddhist Esoteric Doctrine
Quote: But the peasants -- how do the peasants die? Author: Count Leo Tolstoy 1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood. Author: R. A. Torrey
Quote: Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life. Author: Amos Traver
Quote: Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. Author: Thomas Troward
Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A good man dies when a boy goes wrong. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: God's retirement plan is out of this world Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: To fear death is to misunderstand life. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indivisible Self must wander on and on from death to death. Author: Katha Upanishad Ancient Hindu Scripture
Quote: A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Author: Percival Arland Ussher 1899-1980, Irish Author, Critic
Quote: Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. Author: Henry Van Dyke American Poet, Author
Quote: In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the Author: Raoul Vaneigem 1934-, Belgian Situationist Philosopher
Quote: Dear me! I must be turning into a god. Author: Vespasian
Quote: Death twitches my ear. ''Live,'' he says, ''I am coming.'' Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave. Author: Virgil c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet
Quote: To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer
Quote: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: See in what peace a Christian can die. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. Author: Woody Allen 1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian
Quote: I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Author: Woody Allen 1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian
Quote: On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down. Author: Woody Allen 1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian
Quote: There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. Author: Guy Almes
Quote: A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Author: Steward Alsop
Quote: Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Aristophanes BC 448-380, Greek Comic Poet, Satirist
Quote: Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Author: Ernest Moritz Arndt 1769-1860, Swedish-born German Poet, Patriot
Quote: Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. Author: Matthew Arnold 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic
Quote: Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. Author: Matthew Arnold 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic
Quote: The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. Author: Red Auerbach 1917-, American Basketball Coach
Quote: Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. Author: Marcus Aurelius 121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher
Quote: I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: It is natural to die as to be born. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to. Author: Enid Bagnold 1889-1981, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! Author: Anna Letitia Barbauld 1743-1825, British Author
Quote: I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below. Author: Brigitte Bardot 1934-, French Film Actress
Quote: To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world! Author: Clive Barker American Author
Quote: The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: To die will be an awfully big adventure. Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. Author: John Barrymore 1882-1942, American Actor
Quote: Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed. Author: Joseph Bayly American Author and Speaker on the Subject of Death.
Quote: Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance. Author: Joseph Bayly American Author and Speaker on the Subject of Death.
Quote: Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. Author: Francis Beaumont 1584-1616, British Dramatist
Quote: There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. Author: Ben Becht
Quote: Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must. Author: Samuel Beckett 1906-1989, Irish Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. Author: Hilaire Belloc 1870-1953, British Author
Quote: A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds. Author: John Berger 1926-, British Actor, Critic
Quote: Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. Author: Yogi Berra 1925-, American Baseball Player
Quote: Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable. Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life? Author: Grant M. Bright British-Born American Engineer
Quote: Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played. Author: Grant M. Bright British-Born American Engineer
Quote: No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. Author: Hermann Broch 1886-1951, Austrian Novelist
Quote: Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living. Author: Emily Bronte 1818-1848, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Death is the cure for all diseases. Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. Author: Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682, British Author, Physician,, Philosopher
Quote: For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most. Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet
Quote: All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom. Author: William C. Bryant 1794-1878, American Poet, Newspaper Editor
Quote: I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. Author: Jimmy Buffet American Songwriter, Singer
Quote: The fear of death is worse than death. Author: Robert Burton 1576-1640, British Clergyman, Scholar
Quote: If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust. Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. Author: Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off. Author: Johnny Carson 1925-, American TV Personality, Businessman
Quote: 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. Author: Joyce Cary 1888-1957, British Author
Quote: Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. Author: Michel De Certeau French Writer
Quote: Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. Author: Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author
Quote: Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already. Author: Raymond Chandler 1888-1959, American Author
Quote: He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it. Author: Charles II 1630-1685, King of England and Ireland
Quote: You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them. Author: Joseph H. Choate
Quote: We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. Author: Deepak Chopra East-Indian- American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer
Quote: I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead. Author: Jean Cocteau 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker
Quote: Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Author: Jean Cocteau 1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker
Quote: An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye! Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
Quote: As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. Author: Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor
Quote: While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Author: Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor
Quote: These have not the hope to die. Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet
Quote: I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. Author: Clarence Darrow 1857-1938, American Lawyer
Quote: I am not the least afraid to die. Author: Charles Darwin 1809-1882, British Naturalist
Quote: To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation. Author: Mrs Hubbard Davis
Quote: Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. Author: Dhammapada BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism
Quote: Death doesn't frighten me. Author: Princess of Wales Diana 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Quote: He would make a lovely corpse. Author: Charles Dickens 1812-1870, British Novelist
Quote: Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: Dying is a wild night and a new road. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: Let us go in; the fog is rising. Author: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886, American Poet
Quote: The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. Author: Denis Diderot 1713-1784, French Philosopher
Quote: When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. Author: J. P. Donleavy 1926-, American Writer
Quote: As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. Author: John Donne 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will. Author: Coleman Dowell 1925-1985, American Novelist, Dramatist, Lyricist
Quote: All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: To die is landing on some distant shore. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go. Author: James Duffecy
Quote: I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. Author: Lawrence Durrell 1912-1990, British Author
Quote: The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets. Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic
Quote: Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. Author: Alice Thomas Ellis 1932-, British Author
Quote: Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls. Author: Epicurus c.341-270 BC, Greek Philosopher
Quote: The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Author: Epicurus c.341-270 BC, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me. Author: Epitaph
Quote: But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. Author: Dave Farber
Quote: It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him. Author: Edward M. Forster 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep. Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick 1878-1969, American Minister
Quote: The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. Author: John W. Foster 1770-1843, British Clergyman, Essayist
Quote: I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. Author: Charles Frohman
Quote: To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. Author: Erich Fromm 1900-1980, American Psychologist
Quote: Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. Author: Ibn Gabirol
Quote: Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. Author: Andre Gide 1869-1951, French Author
Quote: Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born. Author: Gary Mark Gilmore
Quote: A useless life is an early death. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Author: Thomas Gray 1716-1771, British Poet
Quote: We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Author: Graham Greene 1904-1991, British Novelist
Quote: A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror. Author: George Gurdjieff 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer
Quote: Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. Author: George Gurdjieff 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer
Quote: The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. Author: Arlo Guthrie American Artist
Quote: Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying? Author: Hallaj c. 858-922 AD, Islamic Mystic
Quote: I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this. Author: Hugh Hamilton
Quote: If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. Author: Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.
Quote: In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us. Author: Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.
Quote: Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. Author: Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.
Quote: To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place. Author: Edmond Haracourt
Quote: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. Author: Rutger Hauer
Quote: You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. Author: Vance Havner
Quote: We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Quote: Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: 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! Author: Thomas F. Healey
Quote: Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. Author: Martin Heidegger 1889-1976, German Philosopher
Quote: When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do. Author: Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970, American Musician, Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair. Author: William Ernest Henley 1849-1903, British Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: Only the young die good. Author: Oliver Herford 1863-1935, American Author, Illustrator
Quote: Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. Author: Georg Hermes
Quote: Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. Author: Herodotus BC 484-425, Greek Historian
Quote: The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Author: Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
Quote: Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. Author: Sydney Hook
Quote: 'Tis after death that we measure men. Author: James Barron Hope
Quote: I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet
Quote: Death is feared as birth is forgotten. Author: Doug Horton
Quote: Death is the final wake-up call. Author: Doug Horton
Quote: To awake from death is to die in peace. Author: Doug Horton
Quote: To stop sinning suddenly. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher
Quote: My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: John J. Ingalls
Quote: Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish. Author: Eugene Ionesco 1912-, Romanian-born French Playwright
Quote: The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in? Author: Alice James 1848-1892, American Diarist, Sister of Henry, William James
Quote: I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away. Author: Derek Jarman 1942-, British Filmmaker, Artist, Author
Quote: We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. Author: Joseph Jefferson 1829-1905, American Comic Actor
Quote: I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth. Author: Kabbalah BC 1200?-12700? AD, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine
Quote: Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed. Author: Thomas Ken 1637-1711, British Churchman, Hymn-Writer
Quote: In the long run we are all dead. Author: John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946, British Economist
Quote: The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return Author: Pir Vilayat Khan 1916-, Western Philosopher Teacher, Master, Author
Quote: Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964
Quote: Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth. Author: Elisabeth KnBler-Ross 1926-, Swiss-born American Psychiatrist
Quote: It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. Author: Elisabeth KnBler-Ross 1926-, Swiss-born American Psychiatrist
Quote: If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. Author: Jean De La Bruyere 1645-1696, French Writer
Quote: Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Author: Jean De La Fontaine 1621-1695, French Poet
Quote: Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us. Author: Ann Landers 1918-, American Advice Columnist
Quote: I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Author: Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. Author: Nathaniel Lee c.1649-1692, British Playwright
Quote: We are all dead men on leave. Author: Eugene Levine Russian Jew, Friend of Luxembourg's Lover, Jogiches
Quote: If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival? Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. Author: C. S. Lewis 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
Quote: Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. Author: F. L. Lucan 39-65, Roman Epic Poet
Quote: Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable. Author: Erwin W. Lutzer American Minister
Quote: Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. Author: Douglas Macarthur 1880-1964, American Army General in WW II
Quote: How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. Author: George Macdonald 1824-1905, Scottish Novelist
Quote: There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. Author: Charles Mackay 1814-1889, Scottish Poet, Song Writer
Quote: Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side. Author: Alexander Maclaren 1826-1910, British Preacher
Quote: Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. Author: Paul De Man 1919-1983, Belgian-born American Literary Critic
Quote: We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. Author: Marcus Manilius fl. 100 AD, Latin Poet
Quote: The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. Author: Thomas Mann 1875-1955, German Author, Critic
Quote: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can. Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1928-, Colombian Writer
Quote: The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace. Author: Andrew Marvell 1621-1678, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. Author: Groucho Marx 1895-1977, American Comic Actor
Quote: Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more. Author: John Luckey Mccreery 1835-1906, American Journalist
Quote: It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure. Author: George Mcgovern 1922-, American Democratic Politician
Quote: Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. Author: Herman Melville 1819-1891, American Author
Quote: At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless. Author: Jean-Pierre Melville 1917-1973, French Film Director
Quote: A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. Author: George Meredith 1828-1909, British Author
Quote: Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Author: Thomas Merton 1915-1968, American Religious Writer, Poet
Quote: In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: The world is the mirror of myself dying. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light. Author: Joaquin Miller 1839-1913, American Poet
Quote: Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure. Author: John Milton 1608-1674, British Poet
Quote: Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. Author: William Mitford 1744-1827, British Historian, Writer
Quote: Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: I want death to find me planting my cabbage Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: It is not death that alarms me, but dying. Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. Author: Charles De Montesquieu 1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher
Quote: Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. Author: James Montgomery 1771-1854, British Poet
Quote: Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! Author: Dwight L. Moody 1837-1899, American Evangelist
Quote: I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event. Author: Robert T. Morris
Quote: As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791, Austrian Composer
Quote: So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another. Author: Cornelius Nepos 1st Century BC
Quote: One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss. Author: John Osborne 1929-, British Playwright
Quote: An evil life is a kind of death. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying. Author: Laura Palmer
Quote: Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do! Author: Lord Palmerston 1784-1865, British Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: He that lives to forever, never fears dying. Author: William Penn 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania
Quote: He has gone over to the majority. Author: Petronius ? - 66, Roman Writer
Quote: O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living. Author: Philip II BC 382-336, Macedonian King - Father of Alexander
Quote: Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. Author: Francis Picabia 1878-1953, French Painter, Poet
Quote: dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. Author: Sylvia Plath 1932-1963, American Poet
Quote: Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. Author: Titus Maccius Plautus BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet
Quote: Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last. Author: Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer
Quote: Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: 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. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. Author: Proverb
Quote: We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death. Author: Proverb
Quote: If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. Author: Arabian Proverb Sayings of Arabian Origin
Quote: Life is a dream walking death is a going home. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Death always comes too early or too late. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Death is a shadow that always follows the body. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Our last garment is made without pockets. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. Author: Persian Proverb Sayings of Persian Origin
Quote: There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. Author: Portuguese Proverb Sayings of Portuguese Origin
Quote: A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin. Author: Russian Proverb Sayings of Russian Origin
Quote: It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies. Author: Yiddish Proverb Sayings of Yiddish Origin
Quote: I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. Author: Frantois Rabelais 1495-1553, French Satirist, Physician, and Humanist
Quote: O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! Author: Sir Walter Raleigh 1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer
Quote: I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. Author: Ernest Renan 1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar
Quote: So little done, so much to do. Author: Cecil Rhodes 1853-1902, British Imperialist, Business Magnate
Quote: Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. Author: Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825, German Novelist
Quote: The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. Author: Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825, German Novelist
Quote: Death is a distant rumor to the young. Author: Andy Rooney American Television News Personality
Quote: And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. Author: Christina Rossetti 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist
Quote: Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. Author: Christina Rossetti 1830-1894, British Poet, Lyricist
Quote: Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. Author: Philip Roth 1933-, American Novelist
Quote: You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. [When asked how she has coped since husband's death.] Author: Gena Rowland American Actress
Quote: Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens. Author: Ruckett
Quote: I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Author: Jalal-Uddin Rumi 1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet
Quote: One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Most people would rather die than think: many do. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. Author: A. Sachs
Quote: If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another. Author: Marquis De Sade 1740-1814, French Author
Quote: When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. Author: George Sand 1804-1876, French Novelist
Quote: There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: What shall he fear that does not fear death. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last. Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening. Author: Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. Author: Chief Seattle 1786-1866, American Indian Chief of the Suquamish
Quote: I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade. Author: Alan Seeger 1888-1916, American Poet, Soldier
Quote: A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart] Author: William Wallace American Actor
Quote: Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. Author: Andy Warhol 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker
Quote: God buries His workmen but carries on His work. Author: Charles Wesley
Quote: Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death. Author: George Whitefield 1714-1970, British Methodist Evangelist
Quote: Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. Author: Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Alas, I am dying beyond my means. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: I am dying beyond my means. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Once can survive everything nowadays, except death. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready. Author: Robin Williams 1952-, American Actor, Comedian
Quote: Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher
Quote: Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best. Author: Thomas Wolfe 1931-, American Author, Journalist
Quote: Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! Author: Virginia Woolf 1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist
Quote: No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees. Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet
Quote: I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. Author: William Butler Yeats 1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.
Quote: In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko 1933-, Russian Poet
Quote: All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. Author: Edward Young 1683-1765, British Poet, Dramatist
Quote: Virtue alone has majesty in death. Author: Edward Young 1683-1765, British Poet, Dramatist
Quote: No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Author: Citium Zeno 335?-264 B.C., Greek Philosopher