Death Quotes - Page 30

• Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Good Night

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• Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

  Dick Sharples

  Funny, Way, Slow Down

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• But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Sweet, Journey

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.861, Delphi Classics

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• Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

  Aldous Huxley

  Dying, Lasts, Ignored

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Time Must Have a Stop”, p.181, Random House

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Bereavement

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wells, Remedy

  Don Quixote II, Ch. 10 (1605)

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• There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Children, Dying, Comfort

  Ann Radcliffe (1963). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

  Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Dying, Dies

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• Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

  William Shakespeare

  Woe, Poor, Ends

  William Shakespeare (1767). “The Works of Shakespeare: Much ado about nothing. All's well that ends well. The life and death of King John. The life and death of King Richard II”, p.274

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• Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Lying, Home, Sky

  Underwoods "Requiem" (1887). Engraved on Stevenson's tomb in Samoa, with the seventh line reading "home from the sea," which is a frequently quoted variant.

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• Live how we can, yet die we must.

  William Shakespeare

  Dies

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23

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• I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Farce, Purpose

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• The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

  William Shakespeare

  Giants, Poor, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 75

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• We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

  Helen Prejean

  Men, Helen, Worst

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• Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

  Emily Dickinson

  Winning, Brave, Dying

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• Death is the end of every worldly pain.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Pain, Ends, Worldly

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.180, Barron's Educational Series

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• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Men, Mind Your Own Business

  "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann, transl. by Helen T. Lowe-Porter, Ch. 6, 1955.

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• Authority forgets a dying king.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Kings, Dying, Forget

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

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• Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

  Frederic Henry Hedge

  Birth, This Life, Embryos

  Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.155

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• Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Unknown Things

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.30, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Heart, Hands

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.23

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Future, Elude

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Boon, Ifs

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.843, Oxford University Press

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