Death Quotes

• "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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• "One may live as a conqueror, a king or a magistrate; but he must die as a man. 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. Here it is that fame and renown cannot assist us; that all external things must fail to aid us; that even friends, affection and human love and devotedness cannot succor us."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound."
  By: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs--Funeral Thoughts (bk. II, vol. IX, hymn 63)
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• "The tall, the wise, the reverend head, Must lie as low as ours."
  By: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, hymn 63)
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• "Softly his fainting head he lay Upon his Maker's breast; His Maker kiss'd his soul away, And laid his flesh to rest."
  By: Isaac Watts, Death of Moses, in Lyrics
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• "But God, who is able to prevail, wrestled with him, as the angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own."
  By: Izaak Walton, Life of Donne
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• "Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it."
  By: William Wake
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• "It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. [Fr., Le lache fuit en vain; la mort vole a sa suite: C'est en la defiant que le brave l'evite.]"
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Le Triumvirat (IV, 7)
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• "It is today, my dear, that I take a perilous leap. [Fr., C'est demain, me belle amie, que je fais le saut perilleux.]"
  By: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), quoting the words of King Henry when he was about to enter the Catholic Church
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• "It is then so sad a thing to die. [Lat., Usque adeone mori miserum est?]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (XII, 646)
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• "The wave from which there is no return [the river Styx]. [Lat., Irreameabilis unda.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (VI, 425)
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• "I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave. [Lat., Vixi, et quem dederat cursum fortuna, peregi: Et nunc magna mei sub terras currit imago.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (IV, 653)
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• "The supreme day has come and the inevitable hour, [Lat., Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus.]"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (II, 324)
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• "Is it then so sad a thing to die?"
  By: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
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• "It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]"
  By: Vespasian (Titus Flavius Vespasianus)
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• "Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just."
  By: Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist")
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