Death quotes

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

In every parting there is an image of death.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.