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Death Quotes by Oscar Wilde

51 Death quotes by Oscar Wilde

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A toast on the deathbed shows Oscar Wilde’s witty way of mixing humor with thoughts about dying. He mentions that living badly can be easy, while dying well feels like a fine sauce he wishes to invent. He also describes death as a beautiful garden and a source of melancholy that some find oddly comforting.

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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means.

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“I am dying beyond my means”

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

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“strange sense of loss came over him.”

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

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“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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“Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the…

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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to…

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“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has…

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“The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with…

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The…

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“And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None…

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“One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de Rubempré… It haunts me in my moments of…

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“Each narrow cell in which we dwell Is a foul and dark latrine, And the fetid breath of living Death Chokes up…

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“I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you…

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has…

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “…

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects…

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“the Garden of Death" "Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving…

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“Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and…

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“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of shame…

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“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us…

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“But the Duke will not die, he is too sinful. Oh, can it be There is some immortality in sin, Which virtue…

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“If they know nothing of death, it is because they know little of life, for the secrets of life and death belong…

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one…

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

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“It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.”

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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