The death quote in title was published in the 19th Century along with quotes sourced from an old source of  proverbs and are accompanied by skull ring imagery in the text and images below. Death is the one inevitable outcome that has remained throughout time. Fear of death and the unknown of what will happen once we die ironically has a major impact on our lives.

The human skull is perhaps the most common symbol of death. We have compiled a list of some really old quotes about death from “The Polyglot of foreign proverbs”, translated and published by Henry G Bohn in 1857.

Sun Totem Four-skull Black Diamond Rhodium Plated Sterling Silver Men’s Ring with 19th Century death quote

There is a remedy for everything but death. – Old French proverb from A polyglot of foreign proverbs (Henry G Bohn – 1857). Image: Sun Totem Four-skull Black Diamond Rhodium Plated Sterling Silver Men’s Ring

One living pope is better than ten dead. – Old Italian proverb.
When I’m dead, everybody’s dead, and the pig too. – Old Italian proverb.
When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcass. – Old Italian proverb.
A dead man does not make war. – Old Italian proverb.
A living ass is better than a dead doctor. – Old Italian proverb.
Better a living dog than a dead lion. – Old German proverb.
Better one living word than a hundred dead ones. – Old German proverb.
Every hare may pluck the dead lion’s mane. – Old German proverb.
Let the dead rest. – Old German proverb.
Dead dogs don’t bite. – Old German proverb.
The dead and the absent have no friends. – Old Spanish proverb.
Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head. – Old Spanish proverb.
He who has lost his reputation is a dead man among the living. – Old Spanish proverb.
If you want to be dead, wash your head and go to bed. – Old Spanish proverb.
A dead man does not speak. (Dead men tell no tales.) – Old Portuguese proverb.
The nest made, the bird dead. – Old Portuguese proverb.
The dead open the eyes of the living. – Old Portuguese proverb.
Dead dogs don’t bite. – Old Dutch proverb.
Don’t sell the bearskin before the bear is dead. – Old Dutch proverb.
By the living we bury the dead. – Old Dutch proverb.
Before a man learns to hang he is half dead. – Old Danish proverb.
It is discreditable to fly from a living enemy, or to abuse a dead one. – Old Danish proverb.
Credit is dead, bad pay killed it. – Old Italian proverb.