Quotes on Death by Dead People

~ Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. - Walt Whitman
~ 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 Shelley
~ Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. - William Shakespeare
~ Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening. – Sir Walter Scott
~ Call no man happy till he is dead. – Aeschylus
~ Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
~ One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde
~ Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi
~ Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain
~ Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last. - Edgar Allan Poe
~ The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows. – Socrates
~ Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. – Michelangelo
~ As a day well spent brings blessed sleep, so a life well spent brings a blessed death. - Leonardo da Vinci
~ Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - J.R.R. Tolkien
~ I'm not afraid of dying. To me dying is like getting out of one car and into another. - John Lennon
~ Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? - Epicurus