Death

"Who says that we shall pass, or the fame of us fade and die, While the living stars fulfil their round in the living sky?"

"Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death."

"Dear, was it really you and I? In truth the riddle's ill to read, So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed."

"Life — give me life until the end, That at the very top of being, The battle-spirit shouting in my blood, Out of the reddest hell of the fight I may be snatched and flung Into the everlasting lull, The immortal, incommunicable dream."

"From the winter’s gray despair, From the summer’s golden languor, Death, the lover of Life, Frees us for ever."

"Not lost, but gone before."

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

"Those that God loves, do not live long."

"I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest— Then why should my soul be so sad? I know thou art gone where the weary are blest, And the mourner looks up, and is glad; I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows In a land where they do not forget, That sheds over memory only repose, And takes from it only regret."

"Upon the Grave which swallows fast/'Tis peace at last, oh peace at last."

"And death makes equal the high and low."

"(Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset [dedisses].)"

": Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven."

"Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark."

"How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."

"live so nothing will be left for death at the end"

"And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified."

"When darkness gathers over all. And the last tottering pillars fall, Take the poor dust Thy mercy warms. And mould it into heavenly forms."

"The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has pressed In their bloom; And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb."

"Behold—not him we knew! This was the prison which his soul looked through."

"And they die An equal death,—the idler and the man Of mighty deeds."

"He slept an iron sleep,— Slain fighting for his country."

"It is not right to glory in the slain."

"One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death!"

"We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died."

"'Tis after death that we measure men."

"Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres."

": Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

"Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti."

": One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once."

"Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium Versatur urna serius, ocius Sors exitura."

": We are all compelled to take the same road; from the urn of death, shaken for all, sooner or later the lot must come forth."

"Omne capax movet urna nomen."

": In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken."

"Cita mors ruit."

": Swift death rushes upon us."

"Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen."

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

": Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country."

"Melius est bene mori, quam male vivere (...) qui mortem metuit, amittit gaudia vitae; super omnia vincit veritas, vincit, qui occiditur, quia nulla ei nocet adversitas, si nulla ei dominatur iniquitas."

"Duty is weightier than a mountain, while death is lighter than a feather."

"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."

"Death's got to be easy, because life is hard. It'll leave you physically, mentally, and emotionally scarred."

"You're on your way to meet your maker... Are you ready? No exceptions to the rule; death is promised."

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."

"Death is nothing but death, but it prevents life. If you are afraid, life has no value, and if you die, everything dies.~~ December 18, 2024"

": The pomp of death alarms us more than death itself."

"Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa."

"I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils."