Death Quote by William Ernest Henley

“If you want to know how fortunate you are, visit three places: the slum, the hospital, and the cemetery.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find out. I…

— Alexandar Tomov

“The Queen Anne Hospital was housed in a decaying red-brick building, and the geriatric ward could be a dark and challenging place. Watching people…

— Robert Bryndza

“Yes, and look at the corpses. Place always reminds me of that old thing in Punch, you know—‘Waiter, take away Lord Whatsisname, he’s been…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death…

— Matthew Arnold

“There’s something special about visiting a graveyard. Both life and death meet together in time.”

— Eric Overby

“I don’t even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers’ parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the…

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis

“The cafeteria in the Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital basement was the saddest place in the world—and forever it shall be—with its grim neon lights…

— Aleksandar Hemon

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“A no-name place, as far as I could see, but it had a miserable cafe-cum-garage-cum-funeral parlor shared by a gang of silent locals and…

— David Mitchell

One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're…

— Cinda Williams Chima