Death Quotes - Page 10

• Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Ice, Wind

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Life, Religious, Islamic

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sleep, Boredom, Heaven

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• 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.

  John Donne

  Peace, Grief, Men

  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

  Cesare Pavese

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, Kings

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Beautiful, Memories, Eye

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• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Hate

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

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• Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

  William Shakespeare

  Dying Love, Measure For Measure, Obstruction

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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• The living are just the dead on holiday

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Holiday

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Lost Love, Losing A Loved One, Loss

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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

  Henry Van Dyke

  People, Eulogy, Dying

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• In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Business, World

  Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

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• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Success, Men

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• A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Men, Natural

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.36

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• Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Heaven, Dying

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• It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

  Epicurus

  Wall, Men, Cities

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  E. W. Howe

  Crazy, Men, Law

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• 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 Tappan Morris

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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

  Joseph Hall

  Dying, Borders, Birth

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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• From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

  Edvard Munch

  Flower, I Hate You, Sunshine

  "Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors". Book by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30, 2007.

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• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Evil, Dying, Impossible

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56

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• Call no man happy till he is dead.

  Aeschylus

  Happiness, Men, Died

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

  John Donne

  Book, Men, Tolls

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Peaceful, Harder

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