Death Quotes - Page 101

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.

Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.