Death

(269 votes)   When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(255 votes)   When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(228 votes)   God's finger touched him and he slept.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(225 votes)   I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Jalal-Uddin Rumi
1207-1273, Persian Sufi Mystic Poet

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(222 votes)   He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(220 votes)   Just like probably nowhere is more Life than in the world of Death, where its entire being rests on Life. If it hadn’t been for Death, then there wouldn’t be Life either, and as Life feeds Death, is possible that Death in return would feed Life at the cosmic lunch of the human feelings.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(212 votes)   Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

Iris Murdoch

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(206 votes)   An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(204 votes)   There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

Guy Almes

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(194 votes)   What else could be the apocalypse of Death but the Rebirth of Life?

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(185 votes)   See in what peace a Christian can die.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(179 votes)   Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(179 votes)   The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(178 votes)   Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(177 votes)   Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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