Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

A grave is such a quiet place.

And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

While there's life, there's fear.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I don't want to die an old lady.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

I don't want to die.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

I don't believe dying's a sad thing.

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.