Death Quotes

• "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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• "Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?"
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God."
  By: Thomas Parnell, A Night-Piece on Death (l. 67)
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• "Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest, he loses a subject."
  By: Thomas Paine
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• "Wherever you look there is nothing but the image of death. [Lat., Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi mortis imago.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Tristium (I, 2, 23)
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• "Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (III, 471)
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• "Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (III, 135)
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• "Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Amorum (II, 9, 41)
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• "We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]"
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ad Liviam (359)
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• "Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death."
  By: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
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• "It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful."
  By: Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee)
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• "And die with decency."
  By: Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved (act V, sc. 3)
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• ". . . I am become death, destroyer of worlds. [Often quoted as: I am become death, shatterer of worlds.]"
  By: J. Robert Oppenheimer, after 1st nuclear explosion, citing the Bhagavad Gita (...Death, the shatterer of Worlds)
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