Death Quotes

• "Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand."
  By: Laurence Sterne
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• "Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."
  By: James Stephens, The Crock of Gold (bk. 1, ch. 4)
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• "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little."
  By: Gloria Steinem
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• "All that nature has prescribed must be good; and as death is natural to us, it is absurdity to fear it. Fear loses its purpose when we are sure it cannot preserve us, and we should draw resolution to meet it from the impossibility to escape it."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "No man but knows that he must die; he knows that in whatever quarter of the world he abides--whatever be his circumstances--however strong his present hold of life--however unlike the prey of death he looks--that it is his doom beyond reverse to die."
  By: Henry Stebbing
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• "Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality."
  By: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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• "Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest."
  By: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (II, 59)
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• "Death! to the happy thou art terrible; But how the wretched love to think of thee, O thou true comforter! the friend of all Who have no friend beside!"
  By: Robert Southey, Joan of Arc (bk. I, l. 318)
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• "Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality."
  By: Robert Southey
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• "The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together."
  By: Thomas Southerne (Southern)
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• "There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "The fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown . . . and no one knows whether death which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. . . ."
  By: Socrates
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• "To our graves we walk In the thick footprints of departed men."
  By: Alexander Smith, Horton (l. 570)
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• "We bury love, Forgetfulness grows over it like grass; That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."
  By: Alexander Smith, City Poems--A Boy's Poem (pt. III)
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• "To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud."
  By: Alexander Smith
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• "Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."
  By: Alexander Smith
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