Death Quotes
The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.
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"The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket."William Wordsworth
"Death is but a door; the journey continues beyond."William Wordsworth
"All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."Lord Byron
"Death is but a transition, not an ending."Lord Byron
"Death reminds us to live deliberately and fully."Lord Byron
"Death is the final privacy of man."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have been astonished that Men could die."John Keats
"Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, and scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?"John Keats
"Death is the last sleep and the final awakening."John Milton
"The rest is silence"William Shakespeare
"The rest is silence"William Shakespeare
"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page."Lord Byron
"Death will come when it will come."Lord Byron
"Death, as the last sleep? No, the last awakening."Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Death is not the opposite of life but its final chapter."John Milton
"Death teaches us the value of life in a way nothing else can."John Milton
"All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity"William Shakespeare
"The rest is silence"William Shakespeare
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio"William Shakespeare
"The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures."Lord Byron
"I fear not death, I fear only the void of insignificance."Lord Byron
"Beauty fades, but the soul remains eternal."Dante Alighieri
"Death is not an end, but a transformation of being."Dante Alighieri
"Death is the end of all."Geoffrey Chaucer
"Death is a great opportunity to escape what we do not need anymore."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The rest is silence."William Shakespeare
"The dead live in our memory and in our gratitude."John Milton
"Death is the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is ever convenient."Ovid
"Death twitches my ear. 'Live,' he says, 'I am coming.'"Virgil
"Blessed are those who die young."Homer