Dying Quotes

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.

~ A. L. Prusick

If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

~ Robert Burns

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

~ John Donne

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

~ Epicurus

The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.

~ Jewish Saying

The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

~ Samuel Butler

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

~ B. F. Skinner

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

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.

~ William Shakespeare

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.

~ William Shakespeare

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

~ Joyce Kilmer

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

~ Lin Yutang

At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.

~ Janet Harris

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

~ Woody Allen

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

~ Ambrose Bierce

No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.

~ William Shakespeare

Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.

~ Dorothy Parker

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

~ Emily Dickinson

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

~ Mark Twain

And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.

~ Bible

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

~ Marcus Aurelius

There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.

~ Robert Frost

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