Quotes about death

"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on death   

"Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free."

Lowell, James Russell on death   

"But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end."

Lowell, James Russell on death   

"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."

Lucan, F. L. on death   

"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."

Luther, Martin on death
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"At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable."

Lutzer, Erwin W. on death   

"Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die."

Macarthur, Douglas on death   

"How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset."

Macdonald, George on death
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"There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it."

Mackay, Charles on death   

"Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side."

Maclaren, Alexander on death
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"Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament."

Man, Paul De on death   

"We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning."

Manilius, Marcus on death   

"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life."

Mann, Thomas on death   

"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on death   

"The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace."

Marvell, Andrew on death   

"Either he's dead or my watch has stopped."

Marx, Groucho on death   

"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist."

Maugham, W. Somerset on death   

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on death   

"There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more."

Mccreery, John Luckey on death   

"It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure."

Mcgovern, George on death   

"Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged."

Melville, Herman on death   

"At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless."

Melville, Jean-Pierre on death   

"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."

Meredith, George on death   

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

Merton, Thomas on death   

"The world is the mirror of myself dying."

Miller, Henry on death   

"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."

Miller, Henry on death
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"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light."

Miller, Joaquin on death   

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

Milton, John on death
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"How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure."

Milton, John on death   

"Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good."

Mitford, William on death   

"I want death to find me planting my cabbage"

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on death   

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on death   

"It is not death that alarms me, but dying."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on death   

"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on death   

"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on death   

"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."

Montesquieu, Charles De on death   

"Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home."

Montgomery, James on death   

"Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!"

Moody, Dwight L. on death   

"I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event."

Morris, Robert T. on death   

"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on death
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