death Quotes

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.

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

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

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.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.