Quotes about Death
He died at the house of one Mr Struddock, a grocer, at the Star on Snow Hill, in the parish of St Sepulchre's, London, on the 12th of August 1688, and in the sixtieth year of his age, after ten days' sickness; and was buried in the new burying place near the Artillery Ground; where he sleeps to the morning of the resurrection, in hopes of a glorious rising to an incorruptible immortality of joy and happiness;
- John Bunyan
The dream they dream is beautiful. A dream as bold as your own, or bolder. You want to explore and colonize the universe; they wish to extend the lifespan of the universe beyond all boundaries, to remake its laws, and shape reality to banish entropy, decay, and death forever. I'd like to believe in that dream whether it's true or not.
- John C. Wright
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
- John Donne
To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
- Tullian Tchividjian
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
- Euripides
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
- George Eliot
The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.
- George W. Bush
My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
- George Washington
In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.
- Victor Hugo
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
- John Donne
Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
- John Donne