Death Quotes
The poets dominate here. Edward Young, Longfellow and Seneca are tied for the most entries, with Tennyson, Pope and Byron close behind. A few lines are better known than their authors. Samuel Johnson’s remark that when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully comes from Boswell’s Life of Johnson (1791). Dryden’s “Death in itself is nothing; but we fear / To be we know not what, we know not where” is from Aureng-Zebe (1676).
The line most often credited to Stalin, that one death is a tragedy and a million is a statistic, is flagged as misattributed. Wikiquote traces a version of it to a French satirical paper in 1924, where a diplomat says it in what is probably an invented anecdote. It was pinned on Stalin by a newspaper columnist in 1947, with no evidence offered.
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.
I shall find one.
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Put off boasting, give up self-conceit and remember your grave.
The Mohammedans use the graves of their saints and martyrs almost in the place of images.
There's nothing certain in man's life but this:
That he must lose it.
Death
Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be filled.