Death Quotes

• "Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just."
  By: Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist")
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• "If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!"
  By: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Innocents Abroad (ch. 27)
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• "Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time."
  By: Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev, On the Eve (ch. 35), (Gilbert Gardiner translation)
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• "O Death, what art thou? a Lawgiver that never altereth, Fixing the consummating seal, whereby the deeds of life become established; O Death, what art thou? a stern and silent usher, Leading to the judgment for Eternity, after the trial scene of Time; O Death, what art thou? an husbandman that reapeth always, Out of season, as in season, with the sickle in his hand."
  By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• "O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal."
  By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• "I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the Isles of Death Life would come gladly back along my veins."
  By: Mary Ashley Townsend, Love's Belief (credo)
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• "There will be sex after death, we just will not be able to feel it."
  By: Lily Tomlin
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• "These taught us how to live; and (oh, too high The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die."
  By: Thomas Tickell, On the Death of Mr. Addison (l. 81)
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• "I hear a voice you cannot hear, Which says, I must not stay; I see a hand you cannot see, Which beckons me away."
  By: Thomas Tickell, Colin and Lucy
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• "And at the departure he will say, "Mayst thou rest soundly and quietly, and may the light turf lie easy on thy bones." [Lat., Et "Bene," discedens dicet, "placideque quiescas; Terraque securae sit super ossa levis.""
  By: Albius Tibullus, Carmina (II, 4, 49)
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• "To die, I own, is a dread passage--terrible to nature, chiefly to those who have, like me, been happy."
  By: James Thomson (1)
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• "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
  By: Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
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• "Dead men bite not."
  By: Theodotus, when counselling the death of Pompey
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• "Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly long'd for death."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Two Voices (st. 132)
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• "The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Mariana in the South (last stanza)
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• "The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam (pt. LV)
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