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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Death

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Oscar Wilde
Life, Beautiful, Death
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

Oscar Wilde
Death, Long, Lasts

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde
Death, Wine, Mean

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
Life, Success, Death
An Ideal Husband act 2 (1895) See Goethe 15; T. H. Huxley 4; Modern Proverbs 14; George Bernard Shaw 16; Wilde 56

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde
Inspirational, Life, Death
'Sebastian Melmoth' (1905) p. 12. Oscariana (1910) p. 8

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oscar Wilde
Inspirational, Life, Death
The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

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

Oscar Wilde
Death, Hypocrisy, Dying
The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 3, st. 37 (1898)

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

Oscar Wilde
Life, Death, Fighting
"The Picture of Dorian Gray".

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Oscar Wilde
Life, Death, Waiting

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

Oscar Wilde
Death, Mean, Dying

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde
Life, Death, Reality

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde
Death, Trials, Sentences
Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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