“Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail or knock the breast.”
John Milton
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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.
“The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.”
Thomas Browne
Fear Of DeathHuman Nature
“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.”
Thomas Browne
MortalityHumanity
“So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.”
John Bunyan
HeavenCelebration
“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
Julian of Norwich
ComfortFaith
“Man was made to mourn.”
Robert Burns
GriefHuman Nature
“Thanks to the human heart by which we live, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
William Wordsworth
GriefNature
“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.”
John Keats
LegacyBeauty
“The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
NatureMortality
“He is not here; but far away the noise of life begins again.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
GriefLife Goes On
“We thought her dying when she slept, and sleeping when she died.”
Thomas Hood
LossPeaceful Death
“I warmed both hands before the fire of life; it sinks, and I am ready to depart.”
Walter Savage Landor
ContentmentFarewell
“So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done.”
William Ernest Henley
Peaceful DeathFulfilment
“Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me.”
Thomas Hardy
GriefRemembrance
“Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.”
Emily Dickinson
LossParting
“The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.”
Walt Whitman
Life CycleHope
“All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.”
Mark Twain
HumorPerspective
“Take courage, Charlotte, take courage.”
Anne Brontë
Last WordsCourage
“More light!”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Last WordsLight
“Applaud, friends, the comedy is over.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
Last WordsHumor
“Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.”
Henry Scott Holland
ComfortGrief
“Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was.”
Henry Scott Holland
ComfortContinuity
“Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?”
Henry Scott Holland
RemembranceLove
“I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.”
Henry Scott Holland
ReunionHope
“All is well.”
Henry Scott Holland
PeaceComfort