Death and dying Quote by Maya Angelou

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

— Maya Angelou

Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

— William Shakespeare

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be…

— George Bernard Shaw

And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is…

— Florence King

Death stings so harshly, no escape and hiding zone from it.

— Anonymous

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of…

— Jessica Mitford

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

— Alexander Pope

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not…

— Thomas Merton

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could…

— Anonymous

“The stillest thing in the world is the corpse of someone you loved. A hunk of cold granite seems more alive than a dead…

— Greg Iles