Death Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

“He secretly believed that his greatest gift to the world would be to take that sadness with him when he was buried.”

— Douglas Watson

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

“To learn that his treasures had been lost months ago, and so far away, was no different from learning of the death, similarly distant…

— Susan Sontag

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be…

— Plutarch

When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?…

— Sophocles

When we ponder that vast throng who have died honorably defending home and hearth, we contemplate those immortal words, 'Greater love hath no man…

— Thomas S. Monson

“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined those dead, those living, those generations yet to come that the fate of all is…

— Dean Koontz

“Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in Thy name, and beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and…

— Alexander Herzen

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“How the thought of meeting lost loved ones would sweeten one's last moments, how eagerly would one embrace them, and what bliss to live…

— Émile Zola

“There comes a time when we are able to be pierced to the heart by our own suffering and the suffering of others, and…

— Pema Chödrön