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William Shakespeare6 quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us? — William Shakespeare · 1607He that dies pays all debts. — William Shakespeare · 1616The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? — William Shakespeare · 1616The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies. — William Shakespeare · 1616Men must endure
Their going hence even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all. — William Shakespeare · 1606Antonius Block3 quotes
No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness. — Antonius Block · 1957Death visited me this morning. We are playing chess together. — Antonius Block · 1957My body is ready, but I am not. — Antonius Block · 1957Apostle Paul3 quotes
O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory? — Apostle Paul · 55What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? — Apostle Paul · 56Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. — Apostle Paul · 56Henry Wadsworth Longfellow3 quotes
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873Socrates3 quotes
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. — Socrates · 399 BCEither death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night. — Socrates · 339 BCDeath is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BCW.B. Yeats3 quotes
Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all. — W.B. Yeats · 1933I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1910I heard the old, old men say,
“Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.” — W.B. Yeats · 1903Charles Dickens2 quotes
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. — Charles Dickens · 1859All partings foreshadow the great final one. — Charles Dickens · 1853Francis Bacon2 quotes
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. — Francis Bacon · 1625Age will not be defied. — Francis Bacon · 1625John Donne2 quotes
It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal. — John Donne · 1621All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. — John Donne · 1624Lucretius2 quotes
Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCDeath therefore is nothing to us nor does it concern us a scrap, seeing that the nature of the spirit we possess is something mortal. — Lucretius · 55 BCMark Twain2 quotes
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. — Mark Twain · 1894Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old, and weary, and broken of heart, whose burdens be heavy upon them, and who would lie down and be at rest. — Mark Twain · 1883Spartacus2 quotes
All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things. — Spartacus · 1960Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960Albert Camus1 quote
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die. — Albert Camus · 1953Alexander Pope1 quote
How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. — Alexander Pope · 1732Alexander Smith1 quote
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. — Alexander Smith · 1863Ben Jonson1 quote
Suns, that set, may rise again:
But if, once, we lose this light,
'Tis with us perpetual night. — Ben Jonson · 1606Bertolt Brecht1 quote
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht · 1931Blaise Pascal1 quote
We shall die alone. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Christopher Bullock1 quote
'Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes. — Christopher Bullock · 1716Christopher Hitchens1 quote
Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007D.H. Lawrence1 quote
We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying. — D.H. Lawrence · 1932Death1 quote
I am Death. — Death · 1957Dr. Nicholas Garrigan1 quote
If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping. — Dr. Nicholas Garrigan · 2006Dylan Thomas1 quote
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas · 1951Edna St. Vincent Millay1 quote
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. — Edna St. Vincent Millay · 1928Emily Dickinson1 quote
Because I could not stop for Death -
He kindly stopped for me. — Emily Dickinson · 1886Epicurus1 quote
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are death is not come, and when death is come, we are not. — Epicurus · 240Ernest Hemingway1 quote
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940Father Dupree1 quote
Have faith in your Creator, my son, death comes to us all. — Father Dupree · 1957Flannery O'Connor1 quote
When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words. — Flannery O'Connor · 1959