Dying Quotes

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

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.

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

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