Quotes about life and death
656 quotes from 337 people
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Autobiography of Values (1978)
David Lloyd George1863–1945In Lord Riddell’s Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After, 1918-1923 (1933)
Jack London1876–1916The Bulletin, San Francisco (2 December 1916), part 2, p. 1, ten days after his deathOften credited to Ian FlemingLife achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
Jack London1876–1916White Fang (1906)And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Building of the Ship, Lines 375-376.What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven’s distant lamps.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Resignation, St. 4.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Rainy Day, originally in Bentley’s Miscellany (Dec. 1841) p. 626
Ah, the souls of those that die
Are but sunbeams lifted higher.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Golden Legend (1851)That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937“The Nameless City”, The Wolverine (November 1921); quoted again in “The Call of Cthulhu” (written 1926, Weird Tales 1928)No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937“Ex Oblivione”- H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937Letter to J. Vernon Shea (August 7, 1931), quoted in “H.P. Lovecraft, a Life” by S.T. Joshi, p. 579
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Richards Topical Encyclopedia (1951)
