Death Quotes

• "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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• "And when obedient nature, knows his will, A fly, a grapestone, or a hair can kill."
  By: Matthew Prior
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• "Teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die."
  By: Bishop Beilby Porteus, Death (l. 316)
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• "Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear."
  By: Bishop Beilby Porteus
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• "Vital spark of heavenly flame!"
  By: Alexander Pope, The Dying Christian to His Soul
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• "Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying! . . . Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away!"
  By: Alexander Pope, The Dying Christian to His Soul, paraphrase of Emperor Hadrian's "Ode of the Christian to His Soul" in the "Spectator", Nov. 15, 1711
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• "The world recedes; it disappears; Heav'n opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?"
  By: Alexander Pope, The Dying Christian to His Soul
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• "But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college of a cat."
  By: Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 95)
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• "Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 282)
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• "O Death, all eloquent! you only prove What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love."
  By: Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard (l. 355)
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• "See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll, Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul!"
  By: Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard (l. 323)
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• "A heap of dust remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!"
  By: Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 73)
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• "By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd. By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd."
  By: Alexander Pope, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 51)
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• "Tell me, my soul! can this be death?"
  By: Alexander Pope, Dying Christian to His Soul, Pope attributes his inspiration to Hadrian and to a Fragment of Sappho
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• "Tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near."
  By: Alexander Pope
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