Death Quotes

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table's ready.

One can survive everything nowadays, except death.

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming.

Death is not an event in life; we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years -- and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Death is the veil which those who live call life. They sleep, and it is lifted.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -- a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.

I died a mineral and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal, and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Life is a dream walking, death is going home.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle "promise" from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Thank Heaven! The crisis -- the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last -- and the fever called "Living" is conquered at last.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

He that lives forever, never fears dying.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided. But it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.