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“If Love were jester at the court of Death, And Death the king of all, still would I pray "For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!”
Frederic Lawrence Knowles (1869–1905) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: If Love were Jester at the Court of Death", l. 1. Love Triumphant (Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1904) p. 9
“Life is about connecting with people and how can we do that? These 3 abstractions connect every human being on earth love, time, and death. We long for love, we wish we had more time, and we fear death.” I think if we all lived our lives with this in mind, we would move forward in so many ways.”
Heidi M. Petersen (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I’ve collected the poems, prose pieces and quotes for This is Farewell, I’ve come to understand how they help us to articulate the unspeakable, unthinkable reality. The death of a loved person. Our own inevitable death.”
Pinky Agnew (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my despair I remember; that there is life after death ... But I ask: Oh my God, is there life before death?”
Mourid Barghouti (1944–2021) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Imagining Palestine: On Barghouti, Darwish, Kanafani and the Language of Exile (2021) by Ramzy Baroud
“(About Mango) I started out in the 1980s singing Lei Verrà in piano bars. It was one of the songs that gave me the chance to start my musical career. The news of his death is shocking. Mango will always be remembered as a great artist, because death cannot silence a voice and a song.”
Marco Masini (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am enraged by this tendency, which exists above all in Italy, perhaps because of its Catholic roots, to recognize the merits of artists only after their death. As if death ennobled them.”
Paolo Villaggio (1932–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This death...is not a great affair! Think — it happens once only — to each of us—as birth does. What do you know about being born? That — and no more — will you know about the act of death.”
Phyllis Bottome (1882–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the face of death, it is clear that political differences fade away. For this reason, we express our deepest condolences on the death of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who was always – in all the political and institutional roles he held – a consistent and fierce political opponent of ours.”
Fabrizio Cicchitto (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scheherazade has no fear of death. She does not believe that worldly power, as represented by the Caliph, whom her father serves, decrees by her death the extinguishing of her imagination.”
Nélida Piñon (1937–2022) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: beginning of Vozes do deserto (2004 novel) translated from the Portuguese into English by Clifford E. Landers with the title Voices of the Desert (2009)
“The core problem of sustainability is how we deal with the fear of decay and death... [T]hat's... something, especially in our society, a big taboo, but... death is a part of nature, and that's just something we have to respect.”
Anna Heringer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being hunted for what I did not do felt like a death sentence on its own. It is time to force my exit from this world, I told myself, …Death, rather than life, seemed very attractive to me now…. (But) then I came to my senses.”
Mohammed Bello Adoke (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we reflected on the role that law plays in our lives, both private and social, we shall realize that without law, organized society would be impossible … From the moment of birth to the moment of death, our lives are regulated by law … between two legal documents—the birth and death certificates … In all these cases, it is the law that will determine his or her rights and duties.”
George Kanyeihamba (1939–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief; it is only when we come face to face with it that we find the great mystery so cruelly hard to realise; for death, like love, is ever old and ever new.”
Amy Levy (1861–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As opposed to being symbols of love, flowers are closely associated with death, and their decay also becomes a relevant symbol for life’s struggles, as well as of death and rebirth”
Cinga Samson (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the Eucharist hatred is transformed into love and death is transformed into life...The Eucharist signifies above all Love's victory over destruction, violence and death...it can start a chain of transformation which can change the world.”
Joaquín María López de Andújar y Cánovas del Castillo (born 1942) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Year of the Eucharist was one of the last gifts God gave his Church through John Paul II”: with priestly ordinations on the Feast of Our Lady of Pilar Getafe diocese marks the closing of the Year of the Eucharist (1…
“The meaning of life is death. From the moment you are spewed forth from your mother's cavity you start on a downward spiral towards your death date.”
Nick Bougas (born 1955) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Lisa Suckdog, Rollerderby, 1996, no. 23, p. 45
“One said ‘The world would be a pleasant place, If death never set foot within it’; Another answered ‘If there were no death, The complicated world would not be worth a jot. It would be a crop raised in the desert Left neglected and never threshed out.’”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin (misattributed) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This quotation probably originated in France after World War I. The March 6, 1924 edition of the French satirical newspaper Comic-Finance published what may be the earliest version of the quote as part of a likely-ficti…
“The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”
Marilyn Manson (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suppose Euripides is right, and that indeed no one can be sure whether life is not death and death life; can this truth ever become certain? If all men daily repeated Euripides’ words when they got up and when they went to bed, they would remain as strange and as problematic as on the day when the poet first heard them in the depths of his soul. P. 6”
Lev Shestov (1866–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I fled, and cry'd out, DEATH! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, DEATH!”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love,-- Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. Oh death in life, the days that are no more!”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?”
Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121–180) said by 180 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Robert Herrick
“A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers; There was lack of woman’s nursing, there was dearth of woman’s tears.”
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Singers: We've got nothing always had nothing nothing but holes and millions of them Kokol: Living in holes Polpoch: Dying in holes Cucurucu: Holes in our bellies Rossignol: and holes in our clothes”
Peter Weiss (1916–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires.”
Thomas Carew (1594–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!”
Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words, 10/16/46. Quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 566 - by Jon E. Lewis - History - 2002.
“This is how it works — You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath.”
Regina Spektor (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.”
Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Light" (popularly known as "The Night has a Thousand Eyes"), published in The Spectator (October 1873).
Also quoted by: Francis W. Bourdillon
“The oceans are dying.”
Paul Watson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a place, List, daughter! in a black and hollow vault, Where day is never seen; there shines no sun, But flaming horror of consuming fires; A lightless sulphur, choked with smoky fogs Of an infected darkness; in this place Dwell many thousand thousand sundry sorts Of never-dying deaths.”
John Ford (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold, The hairs on his brow were silver-white, And his blood was thin and old.”
Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Thomas K. Hervey
“I am dying to find a way to invest in both North Korea and Myanmar. The major changes in these two countries are among the most exciting things I see right now, looking to the future.”
Jim Rogers (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: 占·羅傑斯 (zh)
“The lesson is that dying men must groan; And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.”
John Wain (1925–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot keep a clock or a watch. They stop on me. Why won't time stay peacefully on my wrist? Is time not interested in me any more because I am dying?”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Murder... murder... Can you prove it was murder? [...] I didn't think you could prove it was murder. She was dying in any event.”
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Discernment is a sign of a healthy People. In a sick or dying nation, civilization, culture or race, substance is abandoned in favor of appearance.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But my father he didn’t read moon, he didn’t speak moon, and he didn’t write moon. So there was no letter found next to his body in the garage when he chose to leave this place on purpose without saying where he was goin’ or why. There are still days you can catch me tape-recording eternal silence and playing it backwards for an empty room just so I can listen to his dying wish. Shh.”
Buddy Wakefield (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that a sick and dying man can do, is but to exercise those virtues which he before acquired, and to perfect that repentance, which was begun more early.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) first seen 1651 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holy Dying (1651), Dedication.
“For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre None but the noblest passions to inspire, Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.”
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (1709–1773) said by 1773 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Lord Lyttleton
“Today marks the completion of my twenty-third year on this foetid planet. Who would have thought I'd make it this long without dying of mercury poisoning or swallowing my own tongue or something like that. (24 May 2006)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O that we would therefore, while we are on this side of the grave, make our peace with God! Tomorrow may be our dying day; let this be our repenting day.”
Thomas Watson (Puritan) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?”
John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I suppose even God was born too late to trust the old religion— all those settings out that never left the ground, beginning in wisdom, dying in doubt.”
Robert Lowell (1917–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source