Death Quotes

• "Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred."
  By: Sir Walter Raleigh (1)
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• "And greedy Acheron does not relinquish its prey. [Fr., Et l'avare Acheron ne lache pas sa proie.]"
  By: Jean Baptiste Racine, Phedre (act II, sc. 5)
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• "I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played. [Fr., Je m'em vais chercher un grand peut-etre; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouee.]"
  By: attributed to Francois Rabelais, by tradition from Motteux's "Life of Rabelais"
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• "It is the lot of man but once to die."
  By: Francis Quarles, Emblems (bk. V, em. 7)
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• "Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks."
  By: Francis Quarles, Divine Poems
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• "To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man!"
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying."
  By: Marcel Proust
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• "How now! What means Death in this rude assault? Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument. Go thou and fill another room in hell. That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand Hath with the king's blood stained the king's own land. Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high; Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at V, v)
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• "That honorable day shall never be seen. Many a time hath banished Norfolk fought For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field, Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens; And, toiled with works of war, retired himself To Italy; and there, at Venice, gave His body to the pleasant country's earth And his pure soul unto his captain, Christ, Under whose colors he had fought so long."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Carlisle at IV, i)
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• "Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs, Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors and talk of wills. And yet not so--for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as past and cover to our bones."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at III, ii)
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• "For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings! How some have been deposed, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed-- All murdered; for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp; Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks; Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and humored thus, Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king! Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence, Throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty; For you have but mistook me all this while. I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief, Need friends. Subjected thus,"
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at III, ii)
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• "That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age."
  By: Sextus Aurelius Propertius
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• "Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all."
  By: Sextus Aurelius Propertius
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• "Yet tell me, frighted senses! what is death? Blood only stopp'd, and interrupted breath; The utmost limit of a narrow span, And end of motion, which with life began, And smoke that rises from the kindling fires Is seen this moment and the next expires; As empty clouds by rising winds are toss'd Their fleeting forms scarce sooner found than lost."
  By: Matthew Prior
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