Death Quotes

Only birth can conquer death—the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new .

Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.

We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.

- What happens to people that love each other?- I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

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

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

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

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

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.

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.

Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

I am dying Egypt dying.

Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.

To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

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

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

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Ninety percent of living is just showing up.

Life doesn't imitate art it imitates bad television.

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Marriage is the death of hope.

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

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens

We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and create the afterlife.

Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion