Death and Bereavement Quotes
Top 35 Death and Bereavement
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-thomas-dylan.jpg)
Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the
dying of the light.
(from Do not go gentle into that good night, 1952 poem).
- Dylan Thomas (1914-53), Welsh poet, pictured right,
No 2![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-thomson.jpg)
Here lies a man who never lived, yet still from death was flying; who, if not sick, was never well; and died—for
fear of dying!
- James Thomson (1700–48), Scottish poet, pictured right.
![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Isabella in Shakespeare’s,
pictured right, Measure for
Measure agrees:
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
No 3![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
It seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will
come,
(Julius Caesar in Julius
Caesar)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-epicurus.jpg)
Epicurus (341–271 BC), the Greek philosopher,pictured right, says something similar:
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and
when death is come, we are not,
No 4![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-gray-thomas.jpg)
The paths of glory lead but to the grave,
(from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,a 1751 poem ).
- Thomas Gray (1716-71), pictured right, English poet.
![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-boethius.jpg)
Boethius (c.470-524) the Roman
philosopher, pictured right, puts it another way:
Death equalizes the high and the low.
No 5![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-frye.jpg)
Do not stand at my grave and weep: I am not there. I do not sleep,
(from Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep a 1932 poem)
- Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004), pictured right, American poet.
![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-rossetti.jpg)
Christina
Rossetti, pictured right, says something similar in her poem Remember
(1862):
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
No 6![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-roddick.jpg)
The desire that every day might be my last, and the desire to make the most of every moment drives me on.
- Anita Roddick (1942-
2007), founder of the British cosmetics retailer, The Body Shop , pictured right. ![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-marcus-aurelius.jpg)
Marcus Aurelius (121-180), the
Roman emperor and philosopher, pictured right, agrees:
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
No 7![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-bunyan.jpg)
Death, where is thy sting ... Grave where is thy victory?,
(from The Pilgrim's
Progress)
- John Bunyan (1628-88), English writer, pictured right
No 8![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-hazlitt.jpg)
Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of
natural canonization.
- William Hazlitt (1778–1830), English writer, pictured right.
No 9![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-santayana.jpg)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana (1863–1952), Spanish-born American philosopher, pictured right.
No 10![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-fielding.jpg)
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
(from the 1751 novel, Amelia)
- Henry Fielding (1707-54), pictured right, English writer.
No 11![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-leonardo.jpg)
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da
Vinci (1452-1519) Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, pictured right.
No12![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-frost.jpg)
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
(from Stopping By the Woods On A Snowy Evening, a 1923 poem)
- Robert Frost (1874-1963), pictured right above, American poet.
No 13![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-jobs.jpg)
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to
lose.
- Steve Jobs (1955- 2011), co-founder of
Apple, pictured right.
No 14![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
(Malcolm in Macbeth)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 15![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-saunders.jpg)
You matter because you are you, and you matter to the last moment of your life
- Cicely Saunders (1918-2005),
English founder of the modern hospice movement, pictured right.
No 16![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-elton-john.jpg)
I tried to commit suicide one day...I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.
- Elton John (1947- ), English pop star,
pictured right,
No 17![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-gaarder.jpg)
You can’t experience being alive without realizing that you have to die, she [Sophie] thought. But it’s just as
impossible to realize you have to die without thinking how incredibly amazing it is to be alive.
(from Sophie's World).
- Jostein Gaarder (1952-), Norwegian writer, pictured right
No 18![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-marx-groucho.jpg)
I intend to live forever, or die trying,
- Groucho Marx (1890-1977), American comedian and film and TV star, pictured
right.
No 19![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-scott.jpg)
But take comfort that I die at peace with the world and myself – not afraid,
- Robert Scott (1868-1912), English
Antarctic explorer, pictured right.
No 20![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotesbronann.jpg)
Farewell to thee! but not farewell
To all my fondest thoughts of thee:
Within my heart they still shall dwell;
And they shall cheer and comfort me.
O, beautiful, and full of grace!
(from a 1848 poem, Farewell)
- Anne Brontë (1820-49),
pictured right above, English writer.
No 21![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but,
although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my
heart.
(Mr. Brownlow in Oliver
Twist)
- Charles
Dickens (1812-70), English writer, pictured right
No 22![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-napoleon.jpg)
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and ingloriously, is to die every
day,
- Napoleon
Bonaparte (1769-1821) ,pictured right, French leader.
Two other great people agree:![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-seneca.jpg)
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the
living before one dies.
- Seneca (c.4 BC-65 AD), Roman philosopher, pictured
right.
![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quoteswall.jpg)
Every man dies. Not every man really
lives.
- William Wallace (c.1272-1305), Scottish leader,pictured
right.
No 23![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-king-ml.jpg)
If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to
live.
- Martin Luther
King (1929-68), pictured right, American civil rights leader.
No 24![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-franklin.jpg)
Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and
taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American
politician and philosopher, pictured right.
No 25![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotesmcg.jpg)
Let me die a young man's death.
(title of a 1967 poem)
- Roger McGough (1937- ), pictured right, English
poet
No 26![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-rowling.jpg)
It’s the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing
more.
(Dumbledore in the 2005 novel Half-Blood Prince)
- J.K.
Rowling (1965- ), English writer, pictured right
No 27![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotescris.jpg)
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
- Quentin Crisp (1908-99), English writer.
No 28![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but
once.
(Julius Caesar in Julius Caesar)
- William
Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright, pictured right.
No 29![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-nicholson-guinness.jpg)
But there are times when suddenly you realize you’re nearer the end than the
beginning.
- Colonel Nicholson (in the film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957, pictured
right).
No 30![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotessisdom.jpg)
It's not about dying - it's about living fully until you die.
- Sister Frances Dominica (1942- ), Scottish pioneer of the
hospice movement, pictured right,
No 31![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-saunders.jpg)
We do best in life if we look at it with clear eyes, and I think that applies to coming up to death as well.
- Cicely
Saunders (1918-2005), English founder of the modern hospice
movement, pictured right.
No 32![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotestown.jpg)
I hope I die before I get
old.
(from The Who's 1965 song, My
Generation)
- Pete Townsend (1945- ), pop musician and member
of The Who (pictured right).
No 33![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-rowling.jpg)
You think the dead we love ever truly leave us? You
think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?
(Dumbledore in the Prisoner of
Azkaban)
- J.K.
Rowling (1965- ), English writer, pictured right
No 34![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-saunders.jpg)
The last stages of life should not be seen as defeat but rather as life's fulfilment.
- Cicely Saunders (1918-2005), English
founder of the modern hospice movement, pictured
right.
No 35![Death and Bereavement Quotes Death and Bereavement Quotes](images/quotes-dickens.jpg)
Live well and die happy.
(Joe in Great Expectations)
- Charles
Dickens (1812-70), English writer, pictured right
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