Quotes about Death

The silver swan, who living had no note,When death approached unlocked her silent throat;Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:Farewell, all joys; O death, come close mine eyes;More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

Our days begin with trouble here,Our life is but a span,And cruel death is always near,So frail a thing is man.

If a man die, shall he live again?

He [David] died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor.

There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death.

From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom?

The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life.

Wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

My little daughter lieth at the point of death.

Had Christ the death of death to death Not given death by dying, The gates of life had never been To mortals open lying.