Death Quotes - Page 3

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.

Robert T. Morris

If this is dying I don't think much of it.

Lytton Strachey

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.

William Shakespeare

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Emily Dickinson

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.

Bible

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

Marcus Aurelius

There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

Let the tent be struck.

You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.

George Bernard Shaw

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

Bertrand Russell

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

Fedirico Garcia Lorca

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.

If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Jean de La Fontaine

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

Euripides

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

Harry S. Truman

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus

At last God caught his eye.

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

Herodotus

Death is just a distant rumour to the young.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.

I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.

William Shakespeare

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

Darrell Waltrip

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.

Anonymous

You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle created by your lady around herself and you, like the natural emanations of stars, other lives circle yours, seeds still winged and wind-borne, looking for sympathetic soil. You feel the juices and solids of your body in attempted rearrangement, or, more disturbing, making an effort to create a stillness that approximates death, beyond which the body does become soil, receptive to all wind-borne seeds. In a not especially prolonged stillness, as though no chances could be taken that you might decide to become perpetual motion, words fall out of the air, a random fall from which you might be tempted to make selection, and as you do not move, cannot, a string of words falls onto you, and from you, onto the paper: winter rye greening up, smoothing the old brown earth with a fine new plane: Carpenter Rye, neighbor.

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