Henry Van Dyke Quotes

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

Death is a weird thing.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.

Isn't death the boundary we need?

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?

I know death comes. I've seen too much death, young death.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.