Death

(177 votes)   How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(173 votes)   'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam
1048-1131, Persian Astronomer, Poet

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(170 votes)   What can be more different from Life than Death?

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(160 votes)   I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death

Frederick Douglass

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(159 votes)   But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(156 votes)   When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(150 votes)   I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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(150 votes)   It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(149 votes)   Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(148 votes)   A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Hester Piozzi Thrale
1741-1821, British Writer

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(148 votes)   Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

Book Of Common Prayer
Liturgy of the Anglican Church

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(147 votes)   Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

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(142 votes)   Death is a gift to have more life.

unknown unknown

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(140 votes)   If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(139 votes)   I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

John Donne
1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

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