Death and Dying Quotes

237 quotations about Death and Dying
God's finger touched him and he slept.
Lord Alfred Tennyson · Death and Dying
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William M. Thackeray · Death and Dying
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
Dylan Thomas · Death and Dying
Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
Dylan Thomas · Death and Dying
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau · Death and Dying
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
James Thurber · Death and Dying
But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
Count Leo Tolstoy · Death and Dying
Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.
Amos Traver · Death and Dying
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.
Thomas Troward · Death and Dying
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain · Death and Dying
When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.
Source Unknown · Death and Dying
To fear death is to misunderstand life.
Source Unknown · Death and Dying
Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.
Source Unknown · Death and Dying
God's retirement plan is out of this world
Source Unknown · Death and Dying
A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
Source Unknown · Death and Dying
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
Percival Arland Ussher · Death and Dying
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke · Death and Dying
Dear me! I must be turning into a god.
Vespasian · Death and Dying
Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.
Virgil · Death and Dying
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire · Death and Dying
Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]
William Wallace · Death and Dying
God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
Charles Wesley · Death and Dying
Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death.
George Whitefield · Death and Dying
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman · Death and Dying
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman · Death and Dying

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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