Death and Dying Quotes

237 quotations about Death and Dying
Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
Joseph Bayly · Death and Dying
Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.
Joseph Bayly · Death and Dying
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
Francis Beaumont · Death and Dying
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
Ben Becht · Death and Dying
Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
Henry Ward Beecher · Death and Dying
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
Hilaire Belloc · Death and Dying
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra · Death and Dying
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]
Bible · Death and Dying
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]
Bible · Death and Dying
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]
Bible · Death and Dying
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte · Death and Dying
Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.
Grant M. Bright · Death and Dying
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte · Death and Dying
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
Sir Thomas Browne · Death and Dying
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Sir Thomas Browne · Death and Dying
Death is the cure for all diseases.
Sir Thomas Browne · Death and Dying
For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Death and Dying
All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
William C. Bryant · Death and Dying
I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
Jimmy Buffett · Death and Dying
The fear of death is worse than death.
Robert Burton · Death and Dying
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
Death and Dying
If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.
Death and Dying
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Death and Dying
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron · Death and Dying
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Elias Canetti · Death and Dying

Authors on Death and Dying

Joseph Addison Woody Allen American Proverb Arabian Proverb Ernest Moritz Arndt Matthew Arnold W. H. Auden Red Auerbach Marcus Aurelius Francis Bacon Enid Bagnold Clive Barker Sir James M. Barrie Joseph Bayly Francis Beaumont Ben Becht Henry Ward Beecher Hilaire Belloc Yogi Berra Bible