Call no man happy till he is dead.
- Aeschylus
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Though this may be play to you, Tis death to us.
- Aesop
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Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.
- Anonymous
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In the midst of life we are in death.
- Anonymous
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Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
- Anonymous
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
- Lord Byron
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Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
- Charles Frohman
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
- Thomas Hobbes
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.
- Walter Scott
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The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
- Anonymous
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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
- Marcus Manilius
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There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, They shine for ever more.
- John L. McCreery
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Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
- Omar Khayyam
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I am dying, Egypt, dying.
- William Shakespeare
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
- Anonymous
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I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.
- Alan Seecer
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Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
- Alexander Pope
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To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
- William Shakespeare
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Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
- William Shakespeare
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Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
- William Shakespeare
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First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes, and then our fears - and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust - and we die too.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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God's finger touched him, and he slept.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- Walt Whitman
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For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
- Oscar Wilde
