Death Quotes

• "He that on his pillow lies, Fear-embalmed before he dies Carries, like a sheep, his life, To meet the sacrificer's knife, And for eternity is prest, Sad bell-wether to the rest."
  By: James Shirley, The Passing Bell
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• "Death calls ye to the crowd of common men."
  By: James Shirley, Cupid and Death
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• "The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
  By: James Shirley, Contention of Ajax and Ulysses (sc. 3)
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• "Death lays his icy hand on kings."
  By: James Shirley
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• "All buildings are but monuments of death, All clothes but winding-sheets for our last knell, All dainty fattings for the worms beneath, All curious music but our passing bell: Thus death is nobly waited on, for why? All that we have is but death's livery."
  By: James Shirley
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• "The babe is at peace with the womb, The corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Fragments
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• "First our pleasures die--and then Our hopes, and then our fears--and when These are dead, the debt is due, Dust claims dust--and we die too."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Death
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• "Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon."
  By: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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• "Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent."
  By: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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• "'O Jove,' quoth she, 'how much a fool was I To be of such a weak and silly mind To wail his death who lives, and must not die Till mutual overthrow of mortal kind! For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again."
  By: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (l. 1,015)
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• "This youth that you see here I snatched one half out of the jaws of death; Relieved him with such sanctity of love, And to his image, which methought did promise Most venerable worth, die I devotion."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Antonio at III, iv)
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• "Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it. My part of death, no one so true Did share it."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Singers at II, iv), a song
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• "'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord, When men are unprepared and look not for it."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Catesby at III, ii)
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• "I passed (methought) the melancholy flood, With that sour ferryman which poets write of, Unto the kingdom of perpetual night."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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• "Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay: The worst is death, and death will have his day."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at III, ii)
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• "They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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