Quotes about life and death
656 quotes from 337 people
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Marcus Aurelius121–180VI, 30
Elon Muskborn 197112 September 2012
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Journal (April 12, 1834)
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Queen Mab (1813), Canto I
Albert Camus1913–1960The Stranger (1942)- ECEmil Cioran1911–1995A Short History of Decay (1949)
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Salomé (1893)
Robert Browning1812–1889Men and Women (1855)
William Hazlitt1778–1830Lectures on the English Poets (1818), Lecture I, “On Poetry in General”Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Henry Miller1891–1980“The Enormous Womb”, p. 96Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Golden Legend (1851)The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXX: On the proper time to slip the cable, Line 4.
