Famous Death Quotes

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin

I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, “Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country — I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.” -- Walt Whitman

The good die first. -- William Wordsworth

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best. -- Alexander Pope

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. -- Walt Whitman

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

My sun sets to rise again. -- Robert Browning

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. -- Hermann Broch