Death Quotes

All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

~ John Dryden

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Let the tent be struck.

~ Robert E. Lee

You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

~ Emily Dickinson

When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

~ Charles Péguy

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

~ Thomas Browne

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

~ Bertrand Russell

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.

~ Anonymous

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

~ George Santayana

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

~ John Donne

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

~ Sigmund Freud

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

~ Gertrude Stein

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

~ Woody Allen

Oh death you can wait keep your distance.

~ Andre Chenier

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.

~ William Shakespeare

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

~ Alan Gregg

You don't die in the United States you underachieve.

~ Jerzy Kosiński

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

~ Samuel Butler

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

~ Anonymous

In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

~ Edwin Way Teale

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

~ Thomas Mann

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.

~ Robert T. Morris

If this is dying I don't think much of it.

~ Lytton Strachey

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

~ Ernest Becker

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

~ John Donne

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

~ Aldous Huxley

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

~ Logan Pearsall Smith

Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.

~ Jewish Proverb

Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

~ Archibald Macleish

There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.

~ Charles Mackay

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

~ Frangois Rabelais

If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.

~ Albert Brooks

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

~ Garrison Keillor

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

~ Winston Churchill

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.

~ Woody Allen