Death Quotes - Page 18

• Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Dying, Hospitality

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sympathy, Pain, Condolences

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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• Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

  Wilson Mizner

  Life, Atheism, Ears

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• To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

  Clive Barker

  Funny, Dying, World

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 15, 2013

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• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspirational, Life, Thoughtful

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.134, Prestwick House Inc

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• Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Nature, Common

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 2, l. 72

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• And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Wind, Dying

  "The Complete Works of Christina Rossetti".

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• One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

  George Sand

  Journey, Goal, Dying

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• Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, July, Swings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

  Susan Sontag

  Religious, Dying, Atheism

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

  Susan Sontag

  Memorial, Dying, Fiction

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• We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

  Voltaire

  Respect, Dying, Criminal Mind

  Voltaire's 'etter to M. de Grenonville, 1719.

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• How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dying, World, Emptiness

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely". The New York Times Magazine, p. 62, April 25, 1971.

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• To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sleep, Preparation, Age

  The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)

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• If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

  George Burns

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Stanford University, Best Job

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Eric Lax, Woody Allen and His Comedy (1975)

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• No one, at night, really believes he'll live forever.

  Charles L. Grant

  Believe, Live Life, Night

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• Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

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• Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

  Abu Bakr

  Men, Evil, Done

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• When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Friendship, Sweet, Men

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• The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

  James M. Barrie

  Dying, Best Place, Persons

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• The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  The Little Minister (1891) vol. 1, ch. 1

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• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Dying

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources" by Rev. James Wood, (p. 567), 1899.

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• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Dying, Relics

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.463, Penguin

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