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Death Quotations
| There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life. ~ Stoddard |
| All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. ~ Shakespeare. |
| There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose it. ~ Owen Meredith. |
| Death is the crown of life. ~ Young. |
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Leaves have their times to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set—but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death. ~ Mrs. Hemans: Hour of Death. |
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So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain'd and sooth'd By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one that draws the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. ~ Bryant. |
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. ~ Dryden: Aurengzebe, Act iv., Sc. 1. |
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