Death Quotes

• "The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "Out--out are the lights--out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm."
  By: Edgar Allan Poe, The Conqueror Worm (st. 5)
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• "Come! let the burial rite be read-- The funeral song be sung!-- An anthem for the queenliest dead That ever died so young-- A dirge for her, the doubly dead In that she died so young."
  By: Edgar Allan Poe, Lenore (st. 1)
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• "Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]"
  By: Plutarch, Life of Solon, given as a saying of Solon
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• "What can they suffer that do not fear to die?"
  By: Plutarch
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• "His last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born; not after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had before birth. [Lat., Omnibus a suprema die eadem, quae ante primum; nec magis a morte sensus ullus aut corpori aut animae quam ante natalem.]"
  By: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus), Historia Naturalis (LVI, 1)
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• "A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life."
  By: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
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• "He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Bacchides (act IV, 7, 18)
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• "He whom the gods favor dies in youth."
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Bacchides (act 4, sc. 7, l. 18)
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• "There is a doctrine uttered in secret that man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand. Yet I, too, believe that the gods are our guardians, and that we are a possession of theirs. * * * * * Then there may be reason in saying that a man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him, as he is now summoning me."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}, Dialogues--Phaedo (par. 42)
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• "For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretended knowledge of 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. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance?"
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "Look forward a little further to the period when all the noise and tumult and business of this world shall have closed forever."
  By: John Gregory Pike
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• "For life is nearer every day to death. [Lat., Nam vita morti propior est quotidie.]"
  By: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia), Fables (bk. IV, 25, 10)
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• "For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, And who can rightly die needs no delay."
  By: Francesco Petrarch, To Laura in Death (canzone V, st. 6)
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• "O lady, he is dead and gone! Lady, he's dead and gone! And at his head a green grass turfe, And at his heels a stone."
  By: Thomas Percy, Reliques--The Friar of Orders Gray
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• "Death comes to all. His cold and sapless hand Waves o'er the world, and beckons us away. Who shall resist the summons?"
  By: Thomas Love Peacock, Time
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