Oscar Wilde Quotes About Death

• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

• Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Long, Lasts

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Success, Death

  An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Fighting

  "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

• All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Trials, Sentences

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Courier Corporation

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Reality

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Wine, Mean

• And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Mean, Dying

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Hypocrisy, Dying

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 3, st. 37 (1898)

• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Waiting

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