Quotes on Short Death

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.