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Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
Author: Kahlil Gibran, from ‘The Prophet’ (Thanks, Roxalanne)
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Death is the surest calculation that can be made.
Author: Ludwig B?chner, Force and Matter
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People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
Author: Marcel Proust
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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Author: Marcel Proust
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Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.
Author: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
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Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
Author: Mortimer Collins
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Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
Author: Philip Dow
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
Author: Plato
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I wouldn’t mind dying – it’s the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
Author: R. Geis
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Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught, And spent my little life without a thought, And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim, Should think of me, who never thought of him.
Author: Ren? Francois Regnier
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God made death so we’d know when to stop.
Author: Steven Stiles
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You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping.
Author: The Epic of Gilgamesh
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A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
Author: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
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Suicide is… the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
Author: Wilfred Sheed, The Good Word, 1978
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Author: Willa Cather
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I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets.
Author: Wilson Mizner
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Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death.
Author: Witter Bynner, ‘The Patient to the Doctors’
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Paradise – I see flowers from the cottage where I lie.
Author: Yaitsu’s death poem, 1807
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