Famous Death Quotes

Quote from “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/40664

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality

Emily Dickinson

Quote from “Letter To Joshua F. Speed (1842)”

How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world. If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

Abraham Lincoln

Quote from “Death Is Nothing At All” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/61768

Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened

Henry Scott-Holland

Quote from “Death Is Nothing At All” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/61768

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?

Henry Scott-Holland

Quote from “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/24826

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow

Clare Harner

Quote from “A Treatise On Parents And Children (1910)”

Death is for many of us
the gate of hell;
but we are inside on the way out,
not outside on the way in

George Bernard Shaw