Death Quotes


To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author.

The living are the dead in holiday.
Maurice de Maeterlinck ( 1862-1949) Belgian author.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English Poet.

The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.

No motion has she now, no force, She neither hears nor sees; Rolled around in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks and stones, and trees.
William Wordsworth (170-1850) English Poet.

Be the green grass above me with showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget.
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) English Poet, lyricist.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Montaigne.

Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We die that we may die no more.
Herman Hooker.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
Tryon Edwards.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
W.Mitford

We call it death to leave this world, but where we once out of it, and enstated into the happiness of the next, we should think it were dying indeed to come back to it again.
Sherlock.

Death has nothing terrible which life has not made so. A faithful Christian life in the world is the best preparation for the next.
Tryon Edwards.

The last enemy that shell be destroyed is death.
Saint Paul (3-67) Apostle to the Gentiles.

All man think all men mortal, but themselves.
Edward Young (1683-1765) English Poet, playwright.

Teach me to live that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.
Thomas Ken (1637-1711) English churchman, hyman writer.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee) (1839-1908) English novelist.

It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Englsih philosopher, essayist.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Swift.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
Mad. De. Stael.

Death is like thunder in two particulars: we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.
Colton.

Death, to a good man, is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his father’s house, into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
Clarke.

Death is not, to the Christian, what it has often been called, “Paying the debt of nature”. No, it is not paying a dept; it is rather like bringing a note to a bank to obtain solid gold in exchange for it. You bring a cumbrous body which is nothing worth, and which you could not wish to retain long; you lay it down, and receive for it, from the eternal treasure, liberty, victory, knowledge, and rapture.
John Foster.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Lucan.

One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations the relation between the creature and his Creator.
Daniel Webster.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain him; if as an enemy, prepare to overcome him. Death has no advantage except when he comes as a stranger.
Quarles.

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