Death and Dying Quotes

237 quotations about Death and Dying
It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.
Yiddish Proverb · Death and Dying
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
Francois Rabelais · Death and Dying
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
Ernest Renan · Death and Dying
So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes · Death and Dying
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Jean Paul Richter · Death and Dying
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy Rooney · Death and Dying
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Christina Rossetti · Death and Dying
Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens.
Ruckett · Death and Dying
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin · Death and Dying
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell · Death and Dying
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
Bertrand Russell · Death and Dying
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs · Death and Dying
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
George Sand · Death and Dying
What shall he fear that does not fear death.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Death and Dying
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Death and Dying
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer · Death and Dying
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott · Death and Dying
Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
Sir Walter Scott · Death and Dying
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
Sir Walter Scott · Death and Dying
I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade.
Alan Seeger · Death and Dying
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Seneca · Death and Dying
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Seneca · Death and Dying
I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
William Shakespeare · Death and Dying
In my end is my beginning.
Mary Stuart · Death and Dying
Authority forgets a dying king.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · 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