Quotes About Death
A look at the end
Just like life, we have been pontificating about death since the beginning of time. What does death really mean? Is it just a death of the body? Is there a soul that lives on? Where do we go when we die? Is this all there is? Today’s quotes are reflections about death and what it means.
1. “There is no solution to death….Life intends to kill us.”
-Dorothy L. Sayers
2. “It’s a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.”
-Grace Paley
3. “We are all cremated equal.”
-Goodman Ace
4. “Always go to other peoples’ funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.”
-Yogi Berra
5. “I’ve a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.”
-Maria Edgeworth
6. “The woman is perfected
Her dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment.”
-Sylvia Plath
7. “Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs.”
-William Shakespeare
8. “A grave is such a quiet place.”
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
9. “Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
-Francis Bacon
10. “Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves
And Immortality.”
-Emily Dickinson
11. “Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.”
-John Dryden
