INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES Series....

Inspirational Quotes on Death & Dying

"I have a long journey to take, and must bid the company farewell."
Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), English explorer

"If this is dying, I don’t think much of it."
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), British writer

"Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet."
Vespasian (9-79 AD), Roman emperor

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), British dramatist. As he lay dying in Paris

"I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist."
Bernard de Fontenelle (1657-1757), French philosopher

"Why are you weeping? Did you imagine that I was immortal?"
Louis XIV (1638-1715), French king, as his servants cried for him.

"Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms."
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet

"Turn up the lights, I don’t want to go home in the dark."
O. Henry (William Sidney Porter 1862-1910), US writer

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author, comment on the the Russian Orthodox Church as he lay dying

"I’m so bored with it all."
Winston Churchill

"Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers."
Walter De La Mare (1873-1956), Response from the British poet when asked if he would like some fruit or flowers