Death Quotes

"I would have died then; it would not have been anguish to die then."

"We shall not be separated in our burial."

"Fifty-two were counted, but of the invisible Fifty-third the count was as nothing."

"His life was like a light that had burned out."

"You have killed me—and thriven on it."

"The dead are at peace."

"I shall be content to go to the grave, and not trouble the living."

"The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul."

"The dead are at peace, and we the living are tormented."

"The old, old fashion!—it is the same fashion as a dead and gone man's, who had your name"

"Twenty times a day I covet death"

"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world"

"The night comes, the night always comes"

"Thou hast escaped me!"

"Queequeg died as became a man: with his face to the light."

"What kind of living will it be when you—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"

"I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long rows of the dead and the living."

"I see the time-piece and the gaoler fading from my gaze like all things which the eyes take in at the last."

"The prisoner's last walk with his guards was the last thing his eyes beheld of the outside world."

"The blade descended with terrible swiftness, and in that instant, all was silent."

"The dead alone do not return."

"Man's mortality is the condiment that gives a relish to his life"

"Death is but a dumb show of atoms"

"The knitting needles click out the names of the condemned."

"We are all under sentence of death"

"Death is but a doorway to another realm."

"All partings foreshadow death."

"The whole of life is but keeping away from it."

"The presence of death gives meaning to life."

"The dead do not hold grudges; only the living do."