Death Quotes - Page 28

• Death is the stone into which our oblivion hardens.

  Pablo Neruda

  Stones, Oblivion

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• Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.

  Wayne Dyer

  Moving, Transition, Rooms

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

  Rajneesh

  Somewhere Else, Paradise, Right Now

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• There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.

  Betty Shine

  New Life, Life Death

  Betty Shine (2016). “The Infinite Mind: The Mind/Brain Phenomenon”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Heaven, Limits, Love And Wisdom

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• For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

  Petrarch

  Comfort, Needs, Delay

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lambs, Chairs, Flocks

  'A Psalm of Life' (1838)

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• The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  House, Mourning, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 183, 1895.

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• Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

  Horace

  Matter, Boundaries, Humans

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.262

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• Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

  George Eliot

  Perfect, Feels, Knows

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.424

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• You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

  Martial

  Wish, Lasts, Should

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• Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Tongue, Heavenly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.213, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

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• Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Doors, Dying, Going Out

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.363

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• So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Fall, Tired

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.202

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• A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.

  Pliny the Elder

  Sovereign, Human Life, Humans

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• Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Sound, Thunder

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.371

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• The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hands, Body, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Nurse, Slumber, Flesh

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”, p.215

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• Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Glory, He Man

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2321, Delphi Classics

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• To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Giving, Comfort

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• What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time, which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Infinite, Eternity, Uncertain

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• Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Heart, Fighting, Thinking

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.585

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• Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Running, Track, Upset

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• How beautiful it is for a man to die
  Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
  Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
  To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Wall, Men

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1868). “The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous”, p.110

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