Death Quote by Oscar Wilde — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.'”

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

“What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.'”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“A life is not a waste of time”

“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 together once more in immortality! He suffered agonies when he considered religion's charitable lie, which compassionately conceals the terrible truth from feeble creatures. No, everything finished at death, nothing that we had loved was ever reborn, our farewells were for ever. For ever! For ever! That was the dreadful thought that carried his mind hurtling down abysses of emptiness.”

“Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance”

“I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.”

“From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.”

“the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death”