Death Quotes - Page 20

• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Dying, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Aquariums, Imagination, Evil

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.40, Univ of Wisconsin Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Inspirational, Past, Thinking

  18 Copy quote

• Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dying, Green, Cypress Trees

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

  99 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death is the quiet haven of us all.

  William Wordsworth

  Quiet, Havens

  William Wordsworth (1855). “Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.179

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Mean, Dying

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.87, Psychology Press

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Saws, Nutrition

  11 Copy quote

• In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken.
  [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

  Horace

  Names

  8 Copy quote

• If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

  Francis Quarles

  Enemy, Overcoming, Stranger

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.87

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wake up! Time to die!

  Brion James

  Badass, Blade Runner, Dying

  "Fictional character: Leon". "Blade Runner", 1982.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?

  Sue Rodriguez

  Life, Suicide, Giving

  Lisa Hobbs Birnie, Sue Rodriguez (1994). “Uncommon will: the death and life of Sue Rodriguez”

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Spiritual, Courage, Adventure

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

  Benjamin Franklin

  World, Ponds, Kind

  Benjamin Franklin, “Death Is A Fisherman”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Spiritual, Grief

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

  79 Copy quote

  Show source

• 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

  Lord Byron

  Desire, Certain, Death And Dying

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Routledge

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• People living deeply have no fear of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Inspiring, Fear

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sympathy, Missing You, Memories

  71 Copy quote

• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

  118 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Thinking, Essence

  21 Copy quote

• He that cuts off twenty years of life
  Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

  Horace

  Suicide, Cutting, Years

  11 Copy quote

• No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

  Robin Morgan

  Matter, Surprise, Expected

  8 Copy quote

• When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

  John Irving

  Grief, Loss, Grieving

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who knows but life be that which men call death,
  And death what men call life?

  Euripides

  Men, Life Is, Knows

  "Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source