Death Quotes

• "He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the gates of the grave shall never prevail upon him to do him mischief."
  By: Jeremy Taylor, Holy Dying (ch. II, pt. I)
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• "We so converse every night with the image of death that every morning we find an argument of the resurrection. Sleep and death have but one mother, and they have one name in common."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "Of all the evils of the world which are reproached with an evil character, death is the most innocent of its accusation."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "I have often thought of death, and I find it the least of all evils."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "For the death of the righteous is like the descending of ripe and wholesome fruits from a pleasant and florid tree. Our senses entire, our limbs unbroken, without horrid tortures; after provision made for our children, with a blessing entailed upon posterity, in the presence of our friends, our dearest relatives closing our eyes and binding our feet, leaving a good name behind us."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "Death reigns in all the portions of our time. The autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves. Calentures and surfeit, cold and agues, are the four quarters of the year, and all minister to death; and you can go no whither but you tread upon a dead man's bones."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "Death bath no advantage but where it comes a stranger."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale."
  By: Bayard Taylor, The Picture of St. John (bk. III, st. 84)
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• "Trust not your own powers till the day of your death."
  By: The Talmud, Aboth (2)
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• "An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [Lat., Honesta mors turpi vita potior.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Agricola (XXXIII)
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• "To die at the command of another is to die twice."
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
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• "And hands that wist not though they dug a grave, Undid the hasps of gold, and drank, and gave, And he drank after, a deep glad kingly draught: And all their life changed in them, for they quaffed Death; if it be death so to drink, and fare As men who change and are what these twain were."
  By: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse--The Sailing of the Swallow (l. 789)
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• "For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother, Take at my hands this garland and farewell. Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell, And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother."
  By: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ave Atque Vale (st. 18)
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• "Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee: Canst thou not spare, of all our hopes have built, One shelter where our spirits fain would be Death, if thou wilt?"
  By: Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Dialogue (st. 1)
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• "It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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