Death Quotes

• "If I had thought thou couldst have died I might not weep for thee; But I forgot, when by thy side, That thou couldst mortal be; It never through my mind had passed, That time would e'er be o'er When I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more!"
  By: Rev. Charles Wolfe, Song--The Death of Mary
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• "For I know that Death is a guest divine, Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine; And he cares for nothing! a king is he-- Come on, old fellow, and drink with me! With you I will drink to the solemn past, Though the cup that I drain should be my last."
  By: William Winter, Orgia--The Song of a Ruined Man
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• "How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!"
  By: Nathaniel Parker Willis, On the Death of a Missionary
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• "It is not the fear of death That damps my brow; It is not for another breath I ask thee now; I could die with a lip unstirred."
  By: Nathaniel Parker Willis, paraphrase of Andre's letter to Washington
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• "Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know that you're dead."
  By: Tennessee Williams
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• "I am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper, one of us has got to go."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), a month before he died on his bed
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• "It is infamy to die, and not be missed."
  By: Carlos Wilcox
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• "God giveth quietness at last."
  By: John Greenleaf Whittier
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• "O, I see that life cannot exhibit all to me, as day cannot, I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death."
  By: Walt Whitman, Night on the Prairies
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• "Joy, shipmate, joy (Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,) Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! Joy, shipmate, joy!"
  By: Walt Whitman, Joy, Shipmate, Joy
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• "It is hard To feel the hand of death arrest one's steps, Throw a chill blight o'er all one's budding hopes, And hurl one's soul untimely to the shades Lost in the gaping gulf of blank oblivion."
  By: Henry Kirke White
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• "Like Moses to thyself convey, And kiss my raptur'd soul away."
  By: Samuel Wesley, the Elder, Collection Hymn (229, folio 221)
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• "I saw him even now going the way of all flesh."
  By: John Webster, Westward Ho (act II, sc. 2)
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• "I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits."
  By: John Webster, Duchess of Malfi (act IV, sc. 2)
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• "Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits."
  By: John Webster
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• "The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator."
  By: Daniel Webster
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