Quotes about Death

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.

--John James Ingalls

Tis after death that we measure men.

--James Barron Hope

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

--A. Sachs

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

--Winston Churchill

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.

--William Mitford

Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

--Walter Scott

To stop sinning suddenly.

--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.

--Mark Twain

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

--Henry Van

Now comes the mystery.

--Henry Ward Beecher

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

--Seneca

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.

--Joyce Cary

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

--Lucan

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

--Mark Twain

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

--Proverb

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!

--Thomas F. Healey

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

--Hugh Hamilton

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

--Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

--W. Somerset Maugham

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

--William Penn

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

--Bertrand Russell

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

--Eric Hoffer

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

--William Shakespeare

Most people would rather die than think: many do.

--Bertrand Russell

Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

--Francis Bacon

It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
'Aha, my little dear,' I say,
'Your clan will pay me back one day.'

--Dorothy Parker

Death is life's answer to the question "Why?"

--Graffito

The first breath is the beginning of death.

--Thomas Fuller

The play is the tragedy "Man"
And its hero the conqueror, Worm.

--Edgar Allen Poe

Dying is a very dull dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing to do with it.

--W. Somerset Maugham

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

--Joseph Stalin

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

--La Rochefoucald

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't to be there when it happens.

--Woody Allen

All
Life death does end each day and each die dies with sleep

--Gerard Manley Hopkins

How oft when they were at the point of death
Have men been merry!

--Shakespeare

But I will be
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed

--Shakespeare

The rest is silence.

--Shakespeare

Who shall deliver me from the body of this death

--Romans 7:24

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.

--Psalms 23:4

Dear beauteous death! the jewl of the just/shinig no where, but in the dark.

--Henry Vaughan

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.

--Sir Edmund Spenser

Death and life were not
Till man made up the whole
Made lock, stock, and barrel
Out of his bitter soul.

--WB Yeats

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

--Joseph Hall

Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done.

--Alfred Lord Tennyson

A sweet and noble thing it is to die for one's country.

--Horace

Let age aprove of youth, and death complete the same.

--Robert Browinng

...silence sounds no worse than tears, after death has stopped the ears.

--A.E. Housman

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one Phillip

--Massinger

I know death has ten thousand several doors for men to take their exits

--John Webster

Verse, Fame, and Beauty are intense indeed,
But Death intenser - Death is Life's high meed.

--John Keats

...death is the cure of all diseases.

--Sir Thomas Brown

Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep, and it is lifted.

--Percy Blysshe Shelley

...death makes equal the high and the low.

--John Heywood

Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

--John Masefield

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

--Dylan Thomas

And come he slow or come he fast, it is but Death who comes at last.

--Sir Walter Scott

Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you.

--Ivan Turgnev

Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?

--Thomas Gray

Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change: a migration of the soul from one place to another.

--Socrates