Felicia Hemans Quotes

Death makes sad stories of us all.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

Low on his funeral couch he lies!

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Death is the loss of everything all at once.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another, until we ourselves close our eyes.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

To have died once is enough.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.