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