Death Quotes

• "I go to see the sun for the last time. [Fr., Je m'em vais voir le soleil pour la derniere fois.]"
  By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• "The biologist passes, the frog remains."
  By: Jean Rostand
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• "When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, No shady cypress tree."
  By: Christina Georgina Rossetti, Song
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• "There is no music more for him: His lights are out, his feast is done; His bowl that sparkled to the brim Is drained, is broken, cannot hold."
  By: Christina Georgina Rossetti, Peal of Bells
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• "Sleep that no pain shall wake, Night that no morn shall break, Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace."
  By: Christina Georgina Rossetti, Dream-Land (st. 4)
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• "Pray for the repose of His soul. He was so tired."
  By: Frederick William Rolfe ("Baron Corvo"), Hadrian VII (ch. 24)
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• "If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned."
  By: Will Rogers
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• "Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves--not dead, but gone before, He gathers round him."
  By: Samuel Rogers, Human Life (l. 739)
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• "Not dead, but gone before."
  By: Samuel Rogers
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• "However dreary we may have felt life to be here, yet when that hour comes-the winding up of all things, the last grand rush of darkness on our spirits, the hour of that awful sudden wrench from all we have ever known or loved, the long farewell to sun, moon, stars, and light--brother man, I ask you this day, and I ask myself humbly and fearfully, "What will then be finished? When it is finished, what will it be? Will it be the butterfly existence of pleasure, the mere life of science, a life of uninterrupted sin and self-gratification, or will it be 'Father, I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do?'"-"
  By: Frederick William Robertson
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• "Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with."
  By: Frederick William Robertson
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• "The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. [Ger., Der lange Schlaf des Todes schliesst unsere Narben zu, und der kutze des Lebens unsere Wunden.]"
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Hesperus (XX)
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• "Ephemera die all at sunset, and no insect of this class has ever sported in the beams of the morning sun. Happier are ye, little human ephemera! Ye played only in the ascending beams, and in the early dawn, and in the eastern light; ye drank only of the prelibations of life; hovered for a little space over the world of freshness and of blossoms; and fell asleep in innocence before yet the morning dew was exhaled."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Very Fair, She Sleeps. Frame Frail, What a Death! Rose, Close, The Breeze Her Seized. [Fr., Fort Belle, Elle Dort. Sort Frele, Quelle Mort! Rose Close, La Brise L'a Prise.]"
  By: Comte de Resseguier
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• "The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies."
  By: John Ray (Wray)
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