Death Quotes - Page 15

• An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
  [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]

  Tacitus

  Honorable Death, Honorable, Dishonorable

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• Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Moving, Two, Birth

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• I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.

  Max Muller

  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

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• Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Angel, Two, House

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.461

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• Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

  Felicia Hemans

  Passing Away, World, Passings

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by J.K. Hoyt & K.L. Roberts, 1922.

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• Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

  George Eliot

  Years, Shadow, Age

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6956, Delphi Classics

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• O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Growth, Would Be

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2302, Delphi Classics

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• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Tears, And Love, World

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

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• Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Real, Towns, Estates

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• Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

  Epictetus

  Evil, Use, Remember

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.77

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• To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.

  Francis Quarles

  Lying, Long, Dying

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• Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Hands, Envy

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.155

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• Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

  Henry Vaughan

  Jewels, Dear

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Regret, World, My Friends

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• Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

  James F. Cooper

  Night, Iron, Solitude

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• And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

  J. G. Holland

  Clouds, Light, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 185, 1895.

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• Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Kindness, Looks

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• The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

  Samuel Johnson

  Bears, Wells, Humans

  Sir Thomas Browne, Samuel Johnson (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV”, p.32

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• Where all life dies death lives.

  John Milton

  Life Death, Dies

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 620

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• The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

  William Mountford

  Home, Age, Splendor

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.76

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• Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand
  Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away.
  Who shall resist the summons?

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Hands, World, Cold

  Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

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• How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Lying, Graves, Buried

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• If this is death, it is easier than life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life Death, Easier, Ifs

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• Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

  Horace

  Time, Memories, Years

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Promise, Constitution Of The United States

  Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789

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