Death Quotes - Page 2

The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Harold Macmillan

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

The other night while lying on a couch I reviewed the high point of my life and fell asleep!

Anonymous

My mother always said that every time you do a good deed here on Earth you're storing up a treasure in heaven. Which means Mother Teresa's probably got some beachfront property up there and I'm up to a box of Milk Duds and a Pez dispenser.

Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

Charlotte Gilman

Ninety percent of living is just showing up.

Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.

Planned obsolescence isn't a new idea - God always used it with people.

I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.

William Shakespeare

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.

John L. McCreery

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

I am dying Egypt dying.

William Shakespeare

Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep.

Anonymous

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.

Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.

To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

William Shakespeare

Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

William Shakespeare

First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

God's finger touched him and he slept.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

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 rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

It cost 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.'

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Archibald MacLeish

There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

Frangois Rabelais

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.

Aesop

Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

Anonymous

In the midst of life we are in death.

Anonymous

Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.

Anonymous

Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Charles Frohman

Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.

Anonymous

We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.

Marcus Manilius

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Michel de Montaigne

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

Anonymous

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

George Santayana

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

Oh death you can wait keep your distance.

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

Charles Caleb Colton

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.

William Shakespeare

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

You don't die in the United States you underachieve.

Jerzy Kosiński

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

Anonymous

In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Edwin Way Teale

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

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