Death

(71 votes)   He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II
1630-1685, King of England and Ireland

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(71 votes)   If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer

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(71 votes)   The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(70 votes)   Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.

Thomas Troward

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(69 votes)   A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin.

Russian Proverbs
Sayings of Russian Origin

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(68 votes)   Death twitches my ear. ''Live,'' he says, ''I am coming.''

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(68 votes)   In spite all that, we still don’t really know what this dream called Life is, as we don’t know anything of the other one called Death.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(68 votes)   It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies.

Yiddish Proverbs
Sayings of Yiddish Origin

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(67 votes)   Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings

Anonymous

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(67 votes)   O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!

Sir Walter Raleigh
1552-1618, British Courtier, Navigator, Writer

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(67 votes)   the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed

Kahlil Gibran

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(67 votes)   To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(65 votes)   today is a good day to die

klingon proverb

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(64 votes)   I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(63 votes)   In my end is my beginning.

Mary Stuart
1916-, British Novelist

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