Death Quotes

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.
- Jean de La Fontaine

In any man who dies there dies with himhis first snow and kiss and fight....Not people die but worlds die in them.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
- Albert Einstein

Years, following years, steal something every day;At last they steal us from ourselves away.
- Horace

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Seneca

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
- John Donne

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
- Mignon McLaughlin

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.
- Kenneth Patchen