Death Quotes

Death completes the cycle that birth starts. Read this collection of death quotes to discover how major personalities in English literature viewed death.

• William Wordsworth
  As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
  Good bye, proud world! I’m going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.

• Walt Whitman
  Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;

• Rudyard Kipling
  ’E’s all’ot sand an’ ginger when alive, An’’e’s generally shammin’ when’e’s dead.

• Francis Bacon
  What then remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

• Alexander Pope
  ’T is true,’t is certain; man though dead retains, Part of himself: the immortal mind remains.

• Alexander Pope
  Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

• Walt Whitman
  That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

• William Wordsworth
  A simple child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?