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Death Quotes
- "Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know'st 'tis common. All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity."
By: William Shakespeare,
Hamlet Prince of Denmark
(Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at I, ii) Death Quotes
- "Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
By: William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
(Guiderius at IV, ii) Death Quotes
- "To what base uses may we return! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till it find it, stopping a bunghole? As thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth: of earth we make loam. And why of that loam, whereto be was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel?"
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "The tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes, that all alike lie down in peace together."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "The blind cave of eternal night."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "Passing through Nature to eternity."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure?"
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "Nothing can we call our own but death, and that small model of the barren earth which serves as paste and cover to our bones."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "Men must endure their going hence,
Even as their coming hither."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "Kings and mightiest potentates must die,
For that's the end of human misery."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "How oft, when men are at the point of death,
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes
- "He that hath a will to die by himself,
Fears it not from another."
By: William Shakespeare Death Quotes

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