Death Where Is Thy Sting Quotes

#1. To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.

Florence King

#2. Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

William Shakespeare

#3. O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time ...

William S. Burroughs

#4. Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

Mark Twain

#5. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Jessica Mitford

#6. Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

W.C. Fields

#7. I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.

Maya Angelou

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

Alexander Pope

#9. Drowned in a vat of whiskey ... Oh Death, where is thy sting?

W.C. Fields

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

Maya Angelou

#11. Question: Death, where is thy sting? Answer: Every-fucking-where.

Stephen King

#12. Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
Is by a forged process of my death
Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,
The serpent that did sting thy father's life
Now wears his crown.

William Shakespeare