Quotes About Death

The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns.

Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.

Insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.

He that dies pays all his debts.

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...

The hind that would be mated by the lionMust die for love.

Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,And not have strew'd thy grave.

Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!

Thou [Death] setter up and plucker down of kings.

Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.

A plague o' both your houses!They have made worms' meat of me.

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,That Time will come and take my love away.This thought is as a death, which cannot chooseBut weep to have that which it fears to lose.

Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion,—Have you a daughter?Polonius: I have, my lord.Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun.

Beauty's ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death's pale flag is not advanced there.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

O! that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitableSeem to me all the uses of this world.

There is no sure foundation set on blood,No certain life achiev'd by others' death.

Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,And make death proud to take us.

We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.

The tongues of dying menEnforce attention like deep harmony.

And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,Never, never, never, never, never!Pray you, undo this button.

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.