Death Quotes

• "What is death but a ceasing to b what we were before? We are kindled, and put out, we die daily; nature that begot us expels us, and a better and safer place is provided for us."
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "The pomp of death alarms us more than death itself. [Lat., Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa.]"
  By: quoted by Bacon Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "The most happy ought to wish for death."
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it."
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "Death is a release from and an end of all pains."
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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• "So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted."
  By: Alan Seeger, Maktoob
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• "I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade."
  By: Alan Seeger, I Have a Rendezvous with Death
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• "Death shuns the naked throat and proffered breast; he flies when called to be a welcome guest."
  By: Sir Charles Sedley
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• "Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature."
  By: Edmund Hamilton Sears
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• "Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou are gone, and for ever!"
  By: Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 16)
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• "Soon the shroud shall lap thee fast, And the sleep be on thee cast That shall ne'er know waking."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (ch. XXVII)
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• "Haste thee, haste thee, to be gone! Earth flits fast and time draws on: Gasp thy gasp, and groan thy groan! Day is near the breaking."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Death Chant
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• "The soul too soft its ills to bear, Has left our mortal hemisphere, And sought in better world the meed To blameless life by heaven decreed."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "Good night, Gordon. I am thinking of taking a long sleep. [Ger., Gut' Nacht, Gordon. Ich denke einen langen Schlaf zu thun.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wallenstein's Tod (V, 5, 85)
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