“Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.”
More from John Donne on Death
“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
“One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.”
“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
Others on Death
Markus Zusak
10 quotes“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more deat...”
Anne Rice
7 quotes“I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely...”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... ther...”
Khalil Gibran
6 quotes“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”
Neil Gaiman
5 quotes“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”
Gabriel García Márquez
5 quotes“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
Edgar Allan Poe
5 quotes“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
Joseph Stalin
4 quotes“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
Graham Greene
4 quotes“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
Emily Dickinson
4 quotes“Parting is all we know of Heaven,and all we need of Hell.”
Charles Bukowski
4 quotes“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming fo...”
Samuel Beckett
4 quotes“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”