Quotes about Death
All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.
— John Donne
When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.
— John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
— John Donne
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
— John Donne
Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him...
— John Donne
Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne
Death, thou shalt die.
— John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.
— John Donne
On a huge hill, Cragged and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goe; And what the hills suddenness resists, winne so; Yet strive so, that before age, deaths twilight, Thy Soule rest, for none can worke in that night.
— John Donne
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
— John Donne
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost Who died before the god of Love was born.
— John Donne
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
— John Donne