Death Quotes

• "There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "The fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown . . . and no one knows whether death which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. . . ."
  By: Socrates
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• "To our graves we walk In the thick footprints of departed men."
  By: Alexander Smith, Horton (l. 570)
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• "We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
  By: Alexander Smith, City Poems--A Boy's Poem (pt. III)
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• "To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud."
  By: Alexander Smith
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• "Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."
  By: Alexander Smith
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• "Dead is she? No; rather let us call ourselves dead, who tire so soon in the service of the Master whom she has gone to serve forever."
  By: W.S. Smart
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• "We count it death to falter, not to die."
  By: Simonides of Ceos, Jacobs I (63, 20)
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• "Who is it that called time the avenger, yet failed to see that death was the consoler. What mortal afflictions are there to which death does not bring full remedy? What hurts of hope and body does it not repair? "This is a sharp medicine," said Raleigh, speaking of the axe, "but it cures all disorders.""
  By: William Gilmore Simms
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• "Yet 'twill only be a sleep: When, with songs and dewy light, Morning blossoms out of Night, She will open her blue eyes 'Neath the palms of Paradise, While we foolish ones shall weep."
  By: Edward Rowland Sill, Sleeping
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• "Death without phrases. [Lat., La mort sans phrase.]"
  By: Count Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, voting for the death of Louis XVI, but denied by him
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• "Who knows we have not lived before In forms that felt delight, and pain? If death is not the open door Through which we pass to life again?"
  By: David Banks Sickels
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• "He that on his pillow lies, Fear-embalmed before he dies Carries, like a sheep, his life, To meet the sacrificer's knife, And for eternity is prest, Sad bell-wether to the rest."
  By: James Shirley, The Passing Bell
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• "Death calls ye to the crowd of common men."
  By: James Shirley, Cupid and Death
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• "The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
  By: James Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (sc. 3)
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• "Death lays his icy hand on kings."
  By: James Shirley
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