Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Cocteau

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

Jean Cocteau

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

George Carlin

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

George Carlin

If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

Garth Stein

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Garth Brooks

Learning to live again without you is killing me.

Garth Brooks

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Felicia Hemans

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Felicia Hemans

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Flannery O'Connor

The dead don't bother with particulars.

Herbert Hoover

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Henry Miller

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

Henry Miller

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Henry Miller

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Henry Miller

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

Helen Keller

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

Helen Keller

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

George Eliot

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

George Eliot

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

George Eliot

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

George Eliot

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

Geoffrey Chaucer

There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

Geoffrey Chaucer

In the stars is written the death of every man.

George Herbert

Those that God loves, do not live long.

Christine Keeler

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

Christina Rossetti

And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.

Christina Rossetti

Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.