DEATH QUOTES X

quotations about death

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love! -- then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

JOHN KEATS

"When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be"


It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

WOODY ALLEN

Death: A Comedy in One Act


Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Vanity Fair


Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute. Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick. Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses


Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

éDOUARD RENé DE LABOULAYE

Abdallah


When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

AMBROSE BIERCE

"Epigrams of a Cynic"


O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me; of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them.

XENOPHON

attributed, Day's Collacon


There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

Jean-Christophe


Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead,
And knells ring around us wherever we tread,
And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright
Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

MARY T. LATHRAP

"Unfinished Lines"


A dead man's shroud has no pockets.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's


Death walks behind you.

ATOMIC ROOSTER

"Death Walks Behind You"


Into the chilly, artificial air, death slipped and snuck--the god of all thieves.

J. D. ROBB

Salvation in Death


Face your faith
Remove all the lace
You love me to death
But death my love you more

HOOVERPHONIC

"You Love Me to Death", No More Sweet Music


Death is the greatest evil; because it cuts off hope.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics


Death is a process, not an event, despite medical and legal imperatives to give it a date and hour.

JAMES W. GREEN

Beyond the Good Death


Death submits to no one.

HOMER

The Iliad


In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA

attributed, Only Mystery: Federico García Lorca's Poetry in Word and Image


Death is a child of stone.

EVELYN SCOTT

"Immortality"