Death Quotes

• "It is hard To feel the hand of death arrest one's steps, Throw a chill blight o'er all one's budding hopes, And hurl one's soul untimely to the shades Lost in the gaping gulf of blank oblivion."
  By: Henry Kirke White
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• "Like Moses to thyself convey, And kiss my raptur'd soul away."
  By: Samuel Wesley, the Elder, Collection Hymn (229, folio 221)
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• "I saw him even now going the way of all flesh."
  By: John Webster, Westward Ho (act II, sc. 2)
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• "I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits."
  By: John Webster, Duchess of Malfi (act IV, sc. 2)
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• "Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits."
  By: John Webster
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• "The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate; but he must die as a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. Here it is that fame and renown cannot assist us; that all external things must fail to aid us; that even friends, affection and human love and devotedness cannot succor us."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound."
  By: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs--Funeral Thoughts (bk. II, vol. IX, hymn 63)
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• "The tall, the wise, the reverend head, Must lie as low as ours."
  By: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, hymn 63)
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• "Softly his fainting head he lay Upon his Maker's breast; His Maker kiss'd his soul away, And laid his flesh to rest."
  By: Isaac Watts, Death of Moses, in Lyrics
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• "But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own."
  By: Izaak Walton, Life of Donne
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• "Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it."
  By: William Wake
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• "It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. [Fr., Le lache fuit en vain; la mort vole a sa suite: C'est en la defiant que le brave l'evite.]"
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Le Triumvirat (IV, 7)
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• "It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut perilleux.]"
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), quoting the words of King Henry when he was about to enter the Catholic Church
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• "It is then so sad a thing to die. [Lat., Usque adeone mori miserum est?]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (XII, 646)
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• "The wave from which there is no return [the river Styx]. [Lat., Irreameabilis unda.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (VI, 425)
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