Robert Bolt best Death Quotes – “Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.”
Anne Sexton best Death Quotes – “Death’s in the good-bye.”
Samuel Butler best Death Quotes – “To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
Miguel de Unamuno best Death Quotes – “Man dies of cold, not of darkness.”
Aeschylus best Death Quotes – “Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.”
Daniel Barenboim best Death Quotes – “Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross best Death Quotes – “Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.”
Mark Twain best Death Quotes – “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Michel de Montaigne best Death Quotes – “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.”
Sloane Crosley best Death Quotes – “Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.”
Woody Allen best Death Quotes – “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
Lord Byron best Death Quotes – “‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
Buddha best Death Quotes – “To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
Adam Clarke best Death Quotes – “He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.”
Chuck Palahniuk best Death Quotes – “If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.”