Eulogy and Death Quotes

This is a gallery of the images used on this site. Each image is presented with a quote on the subject of death, the afterlife, or eulogies. The quotes were paired with the pictures randomly but often there is an apparent connection between the image and the quote.


Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. - Groucho Marx	God is on the side not of the heavy battalions but of the best shots. - Voltaire	(The deceased) ... kept a hearth-girl in his house who kindled his fire but extinguished his virtue, - Gerald of Wales (1146-1220)	Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. - Andre Gide

Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns! - Lord Byron	Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, ...	I must sleep now. - Lord Byron's dying words	O death! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! Welcome the hour, my aged limbs Are laid with thee at rest! - Robert Burns

Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite! divine! - Edward Young	As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12] Bible	The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. - Richard Baxter	Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. - John Dryden

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson	All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. - Dr. John Donne	To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. - Charles Dickens	Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day. - William Cowper

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