“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”
John Keats
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Death Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DEATH
Death Quotes
Read 200 of the best death quotes about grief, loss, remembrance and the meaning of life, from Shakespeare, Seneca, John Donne, the Bible and more.
“He hath awakened from the dream of life.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
PeaceEternal Life
“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
ComfortImmortality
“The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
EternityHope
“Whom the gods love dies young.”
Menander
YouthLoss
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Unfinished LifeGrief
“When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me.”
Christina Rossetti
FarewellLove
“Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee.”
Emily Brontë
GriefRemembrance
“I heard a Fly buzz - when I died.”
Emily Dickinson
PoetryMortality
“The Bustle in a House the Morning after Death is solemnest of industries enacted upon Earth.”
Emily Dickinson
GriefHome
“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
Walt Whitman
HopeLife Cycle
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, and the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd.”
Walt Whitman
MourningRemembrance
“Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SoulHope
“Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
MortalityTime
“Approach thy grave, like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
William Cullen Bryant
PeaceAcceptance
“One world at a time.”
Henry David Thoreau
Present MomentPeace
“When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise.”
Charles Dickens
LegacyLoss
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Living WellPeace
“He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces.”
The Bible (Isaiah 25:8)
HopeComfort
“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 5:8)
FaithHeaven
“For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
The Bible (Philippians 1:21)
FaithEternal Life
“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.”
The Bible (Revelation 14:13)
RestLegacy
“Sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.”
The Bible (1 Thessalonians 4:13)
HopeGrief
“Jesus wept.”
The Bible (John 11:35)
GriefCompassion
“It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:2)
WisdomMourning