Definition of death

"death" in the noun sense

1. death, decease, expiry

the event of dying or departure from life

"her death came as a terrible shock"

"upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"

2. death

the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism

"the animal died a painful death"

3. death

the absence of life or state of being dead

"he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"

4. death, dying, demise

the time when something ends

"it was the death of all his plans"

"a dying of old hopes"

5. death, last

the time at which life ends continuing until dead

"she stayed until his death"

"a struggle to the last"

6. Death

the personification of death

"Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"

7. end, destruction, death

a final state

"he came to a bad end"

"the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"

8. death

the act of killing

"he had two deaths on his conscience"

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Quotations for death

Loyal to death. [ Motto ]

War to the death. [ French ]

I must sleep now. [ Dying words of Byron ]

One more Unfortunate
Weary of breath.
Rashly importunate.
Gone to her death. [ Hood ]

War is death's feast. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Death comes but once. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Through the death of.

Death is another life. [ Bailey ]

Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well won,
Now comes rest. [ President Garfield's Epitaph ]

Science dissects death. [ F. W. Robertson ]

A man can die but once. [ William Shakespeare ]

One man's breath
Is another man's death. [ Proverb ]

Till death all is life. [ Proverb ]

Death keeps no calendar. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

After death, the doctor. [ Proverb ]

Death levels all things. [ Claudianus ]

Death will have his day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is a fearful thing. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

A mind undaunted by death. [ Ovid ]

Death is the gate of life. [ Bailey ]

Sin and her shadow, death. [ Milton ]

Death's day is doom's day. [ Proverb ]

Death is Life's high meed. [ Keats ]

Not dead, but gone before. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Death in very many a form. [ Virgil ]

Death meets us every where. [ Proverb ]

Mercy often inflicts death. [ Seneca ]

Death is the crown of life. [ Young ]

How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep! [ Shelley ]

I want to meet my God awake. [ Carlyle ]

Death is the grand leveller. [ Proverb ]

He that dies pays all debts. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be thou faithful unto death. [ St. John ]

God giveth quietness at last. [ Whittier ]

Sleep and Death are brothers. [ Diogenes ]

Death is the master of sleep. [ Talmud ]

Life hath more awe than death. [ Bailey ]

He that fears death lives not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

You who come my grave to view,
A moment stop and think.
That I am in eternity,
And you are on the brink. [ Epitaph ]

Two hands upon the breast.
And labor's done;
Two pale feet cross'd in rest.
The race is won. [ D. M. Mulock ]

Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood! [ Byron ]

Spur not a free horse to death. [ Proverb ]

Life is the offspring of death. [ Moses Harvey ]

Knowledge by suffering endureth,
And life is perfected by Death. [ Mrs. Browning ]

The swan sings when death comes. [ Proverb ]

Love seldom dies a sudden death. [ Saurin ]

Despair is infidelity and death. [ Whittier ]

The blind cave of eternal night. [ William Shakespeare ]

What! is there no bribing death? [ Dying words of Cardinal Beaufort ]

Gray hairs are death's blossoms. [ Schiller ]

Where all life dies death lives. [ Milton ]

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,A Psalm Of Life ]

Death is a panacea for all evils. [ Montaigne ]

Is it then so sad a thing to die? [ Virgil ]

A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death? [ Wordsworth ]

Downy sleep, death's counterfeit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Spectacles are death's arquebuse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Death lays his icy hand on kings. [ Shirley ]

No; death is not an eternal sleep. [ Robespierre ]

The death of youth is a shipwreck. [ Proverb ]

Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee. [ Doane ]

An evil life is one kind of death. [ Ovid ]

Liberty is life; slavery is death. [ A. Vinet ]

Give me liberty, or give me death. [ Patrick Henry ]

Wrinkles are beauty's death-lines. [ J. L. Basford ]

The first dark day of nothingness,
The last of danger and distress. [ Byron ]

Falsehood and death are synonymous. [ Bancroft ]

Death is a mighty, universal truth. [ Dickens ]

But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man. [ Michael J. Barry ]

Yet all I've learnt from hours rife
With painful brooding here,
Is, that amid this mortal strife.
The lapse of every year
But takes away a hope from life.
And adds to death a fear. [ Hoffman ]

Neglect is the death of friendship. [ F. S. Osgood ]

Passing through Nature to eternity. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is the quiet haven of us all. [ Wordsworth ]

Done to death by slanderous tongues. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death rides on every passing breeze,
He lurks in every flower. [ Bishop Heber ]

Tell me, my soul! can this be death? [ Pope ]

Death is delightful. Death is dawn -
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light. [ Joaquin Miller ]

The young may die, but the old must! [ Longfellow ]

The soul too soft its ills to bear.
Has left our mortal hemisphere.
And sought in better world the meed
To blameless life by heaven decreed. [ Scott ]

Then with no fiery throbbing pain.
No cold gradations of decay.
Death broke at once the vital chain.
And freed his soul the nearest way. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Death is the origin of another life. [ Montaigne ]

Life is as serious a thing as death. [ Bailey ]

When darkness gathers over all,
And the last tottering pillars fall,
Take the poor dust Thy mercy warms,
And mould it into heavenly forms. [ O. W. Holmes ]

A fair death honours the whole life. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A good life fears not life nor death. [ Proverb ]

In the midst of life we are in death. [ Burial Service ]

Life is a dream; death, an awakening. [ La Beaumelle ]

To wish for death is a coward's part. [ Ovid ]

The shadow cloaked from head to foot,
Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. [ Tennyson ]

Death devours lambs as well as sheep. [ Proverb ]

Old men that dandle madams hug death. [ Proverb ]

Death upon his face
Is rather shine than shade,
A tender shine by looks beloved made. [ Mrs. Browning ]

The world will turn when we are earth
As though we had not come nor gone;
There was no lack before our birth.
When we are gone there will be none. [ Omar Khayyam ]

A useless life is but an early death. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. [ Browning ]

Death from sin no power can separate. [ Milton ]

Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Death is the last limit of all things. [ Horace ]

Like the hand which ends a dream,
Death, with the might of his sunbeam,
Touches the flesh and the soul awakes. [ Browning ]

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death. [ Juvenal ]

Smit with exceeding sorrow unto Death. [ Tennyson ]

Man implores Death and digs his grave. [ A. L. Thomas ]

All death is sudden to the unprepared. [ Proverb ]

Lay her in the earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring! [ William Shakespeare ]

The world recedes; it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting? [ Pope ]

As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port - heaven -
Friend, what years could us divide? [ D. M. Mulock ]

The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn. [ Tennyson ]

O death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour, my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest! [ Burns ]

God's finger touched him, and he slept. [ Tennyson ]

The most happy ought to wish for death. [ Seneca ]

'Tis long since death had the majority. [ Blair ]

Death is sure
To those that stay and those that roam. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Heaven gives its favorites early death. [ Byron ]

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. [ Barry Cornwall ]

There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And with his sickle keen.
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. [ Longfellow ]

It is infamy to die, and not be missed. [ Carlos Wilcox ]

Nothing is certain but death and taxes. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

This is the last of earth! I am content. [ John Quincy Adams ]

Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away. [ John Keble ]

Every door may be shut but death's door. [ Proverb ]

He that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. [ Horace ]

Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. [ Thomson ]

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. [ Scott ]

All my possessions for a moment of time. [ Last words of Queen Elizabeth ]

Valor is the contempt of death and pain. [ Tacitus ]

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due.
Dust claims dust - and we die too. [ Shelley ]

Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death. [ Seneca ]

What's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death ready stands to interpose his dart. [ Milton ]

No work begun shall ever pause for death! [ Robert Browning ]

Why are those tears? why droops your head
Is then your other husband dead?
Or does a worse disgrace betide?
Hath no one since his death applied? [ Gay ]

And thou art terrible - the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And ail we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine. [ Halleck ]

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The prince, who kept the world in awe.
The judge, whose dictate fix'd the law.
The rich, the poor, the great, the small,
Are levelled: death confounds them all. [ Gay ]

Envy is not to be conquered but by death. [ Horace ]

Death has left on her only the beautiful. [ Hood ]

Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds. [ Dryden ]

Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is but what the haughty brave,
The weak must bear, the wretch must crave. [ Byron ]

The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death,
Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath. [ Pope ]

While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. [ Young ]

Death comes to all.
His cold and sapless hand
Waves over the world, and beckons us away.
Who shall resist the summons? [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ Dryden ]

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. [ Young ]

O death! thou gentle end of human sorrows. [ Rowe ]

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death robs the rich and relieves the poor. [ J. L. Basford ]

The breathing miracle into silence passed! [ Gerald Massey ]

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. [ William Shakespeare ]

And there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long. [ William Shakespeare ]

How much of love lies buried dusty graves! [ F. A. Durivage ]

She thought our good-night kiss was given.
And like a lily her life did close;
Angels uncurtain'd that repose,
And the next waking dawn'd in heaven. [ Gerald Massey ]

We sail the sea of life; a calm one finds.
And one a tempest; and, the voyage o'er,
Death is the quiet haven of us all. [ Wordsworth ]

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;
Relieve my languish, and restore the light. [ Samuel Daniel ]

The sense of death is most in apprehension. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think
How often mortality stands on the brink
Of its grave without any misgiving;
And yet in this slippery world of strife,
In the stir of human bustle so rife.
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life
Is dying, and Death is living! [ Hood ]

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. [ Pope ]

Distrust and darkness of a future state
Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate,
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ John Dryden ]

There is no remedy for all evils but death. [ Proverb ]

The first breath is the beginning of death. [ Proverb ]

He laughs ill that laughs himself to death. [ Proverb ]

Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man makes a death, which nature never made. [ Young ]

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Where death's approach is seen so terrible! [ William Shakespeare ]

There are few die well that die in a battle. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are remedies for all things but death. [ Carlyle ]

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. [ Massinger ]

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just. [ Henry Vaughan ]

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst
With more and greater evils than the first.
Weak, sickly, full of pains: in every breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death. [ Churchill ]

He that dies this year is quit for the next. [ William Shakespeare ]

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death
Will seize the doctor too. [ William Shakespeare ]

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast, sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind, muffled bawd! dark harbor for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator,
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher! [ William Shakespeare ]

When age is jocund it makes sport for death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. [ Montaigne ]

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it. [ Ben Jonson ]

The death of censure is the death of genius. [ Simms ]

Death is the port where all may refuge find,
The end of labor, entry into rest;
Death hath the bounds of misery confin'd
Whose sanctuary shrouds affliction best. [ Earl of Stirling ]

Death rides in triumph, - fell destruction
Lashes his fiery horse, and round about hint
His many thousand ways to let out souls. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

How short is human life; the very breath,
Which frames my words, accelerates my death. [ Hannah More ]

Sweet is true love though given in vain,
And sweet is death that puts an end to pain. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,
Take at my hands this garland and farewell,
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother. [ Swinburne ]

The wisest men are wise to the full in death. [ John Ruskin ]

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death! [ Mrs. Hemans ]

An Englishman fears contempt more than death. [ Goldsmith ]

O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her
And be her sense but as a monument. [ William Shakespeare ]

I fled, and cried out Death!
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
From all her caves, and back resounded Death. [ Milton ]

These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]

Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Death surprises us in the midst of our hopes. [ Proverb ]

Each moment of life is one step nearer death. [ Corneille ]

Every moment of life is a step towards death. [ Corneille ]

He hath not lived that lives not after death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave:
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave. [ Pope ]

Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. [ Charles Lamb ]

What can they suffer that do not fear to die? [ Plutarch ]

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]

Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns. [ Byron ]

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

Ye flowers that droop forsaken by the spring;
Ye birds that left by summer cease to sing;
Yet trees that fade when autumn heats remove.
Say, is not absence death to those who love? [ Pope ]

Not where death hath power may love be blest. [ Mrs. Ilemans ]

Like a led victim, to my death I'll go.
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. [ Dryden ]

Less base the fear of death than fear of life. [ Young ]

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

'Tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we
Unburden'd crawl toward death. [ William Shakespeare ]

When all the blandishments of life are gone,
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. [ Dr. Sewell ]

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. [ Young ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

The relations of all living end in separation. [ Mahabharata ]

Death and life are in the power of the tongue. [ Bible ]

Time is a great physician: he brings us death.

The man who consecrates his hours
By vigorous effort, and an honest aim.
At once he draws the sting of life and death;
He walks with nature; and her paths are peace. [ Young ]

Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? [ Gray ]

How oft, when men are at the point of death.
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death. [ William Shakespeare ]

Old men go to death; death comes to young men. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Peace and patience, and death with repentance. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Of no distemper, of no blast he died
But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long. [ Dryden ]

Tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is over. [ Pope ]

No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death. [ Young ]

To die is landing on some silent shore.
Where billows never break nor tempests roar;
Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis over. [ Sir Samuel Garth ]

To die, - to sleep, -
No more; - and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. [ William Shakespeare ]

What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse. [ Opitz ]

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. [ Pope ]

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom,
A shadow on those features fair and thin;
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room,
Two angels issued, where but one went in. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

There is no Death! what seems so is transition:
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian
Whose portal we call Death. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

How well he fell asleep!
Like some proud river, widening toward the sea;
Calmly and grandly, silently and deep,
Life joined eternity. [ S. T. Coleridge ]

The loss of illusions is the death of the soul. [ Chamfort ]

There is no death! What seems so is transition. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

That evil can never be great which is the last. [ Cornelius Nepos ]

I live.
But live to die: and living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome and yet all invincible
Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I
Despise myself, yet cannot overcome -
And so I live. [ Byron ]

Sleep, next to death, is the best thing in life. [ T. Gautier ]

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [ Plautus ]

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. [ William Shakespeare ]

What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts,
To wake the soul to sense of future scenes?
Deaths stand like Mercurys, in every way,
And kindly point us to our journey's end. [ Dr. Young ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [ Bible ]

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death and that vast forever,
One grand, sweet song. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused;
As poison heals, in just proportion used;
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies,
But well dispersed, is incense to the skies. [ Pope ]

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew.
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. [ Young ]

Death has made His darkness beautiful with thee. [ Tennyson ]

Death cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality. [ Millman ]

Death is a release from and an end of all pains. [ Seneca ]

Life without a friend is death with a vengeance. [ Proverb ]

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters. [ Horace ]

No great man is ordained to die a natural death. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The evening shows the day, and death crowns life. [ Webster ]

Dead! God, how much there is in that little word! [ Byron ]

That golden key that opes the palace of eternity. [ Milton ]

Over the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who've crossed to the farther side;
The gleam of their snowy robes I see.
But their voices are drowned in the dashing tide. [ Nancy A. W. Priest ]

Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape,
And ivy berry, choose; and still depart
From death to death thro' life and life, and find
Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought
Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
But this main miracle, that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

Death, so called, is a thing that makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. [ Byron ]

To die at the command of another is to die twice. [ Syrus ]

In life you loved me not, in death you bewail me. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell. [ Proverb ]

Life without a friend is death without a witness. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

An old man's staff is the rapper of death's door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ]

Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. [ Roger L'Estrange ]

First on thy friend deliberate with thyself;
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice;
Nor jealous of the chosen; fixing, fix;
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. [ Young ]

One destined period men in common have,
The great, the base, the coward, and the brave,
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

The doctor is not unfrequently death's pilot-fish. [ G. D. Prentice ]

The thrift of you was the death of your good-dame. [ Proverb ]

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. [ Bacon ]

The old man's staff is the rapper at death's door. [ Proverb ]

The birth of science was the death of superstition. [ Huxley ]

Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]

Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The death of a young wolf doth never come too soon. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O very gloomy is the House of Woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling.
With all the dark solemnities which show
That Death is in the dwelling!
O, very, very dreary is the room
Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles.
But smitten by the common stroke of doom.
The corpse lies on the trestles! [ Hood ]

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]

Death, thou art infinite; it is life that is little. [ Bailey ]

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. [ Corneille ]

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange! [ Mrs. Browning ]

In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [ Horace ]

Good men must die, but death cannot kill them quite. [ Proverb ]

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If Socrates died like a sage, Jesus died like a God. [ Rousseau ]

There are countless roads on all sides to the grave. [ Cicero ]

A gallant man rather despises death than hates life. [ Proverb ]

A death-bed repentance seldom reaches to restitution. [ Junius ]

Watch, for the idleness of the soul approaches death. [ Demophilus ]

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. [ Hazlitt ]

Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world,
When pleasure treads the paths which reason shuns. [ Young ]

Sure as night follows day,
Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world,
When pleasure treads the path which reason shuns. [ Young ]

The thought of death is more cruel than death itself. [ De la Boetie ]

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too. [ Cowper ]

The finest day of life is that on which one quits it. [ Frederick the Great ]

Believe that each day is the last to shine upon thee. [ Horace ]

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. [ Jean Paul ]

The sleeping partner of life - a change of existence. [ Paul Chatfield ]

Men fear death, as children fear going into the dark. [ Proverb ]

The greatest business of life is to prepare for death. [ Proverb ]

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life. [ Tacitus ]

A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life. [ Milton ]

A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life. [ Pliny ]

Death hath no advantage but where it comes a stranger. [ Jeremy TayJor ]

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. [ Schiller ]

Death is the only trustworthy friend of the miserable.

He who fears death has already lost the life be covets. [ Cato ]

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery. [ Gotthold ]

Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's door. [ Turkish Proverb ]

An honourable death is better than an ignominious life. [ Tac ]

Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever,
Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
Thus shalt thou make life, death, and the vast forever. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. [ W. Irving ]

Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewail another's. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death. [ Ovid ]

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. [ William Shakespeare ]

In the midst of early life, Snares of death surround us. [ Martin Luther ]

Seamen are the nearest to death and the farthest to God. [ Proverb ]

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud. [ Alexander Smith ]

He pulls with a long rope that waits for another's death. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death. [ Whittier ]

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. [ Abd-el-Kader ]

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. [ Nathaniel Lee ]

If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but you. [ Proverb ]

It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. [ Napoleon I ]

Death rather frees us from ills than robs us of our goods. [ Proverb ]

Our birth made us mortal, our death will make us immortal. [ Proverb ]

What is death, after all? We leave only mortals behind us. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Against the evil of death there is no remedy in the garden.

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

She was gentle towards death, as she was towards every one. [ Bossuet ]

Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a death-bed. [ Pope ]

Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. [ Longfellow ]

That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age. [ Propertius ]

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening. [ Walter Scott ]

Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it. [ Alexander Smith ]

No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour. [ Dryden ]

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith! [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

The day of our birth is one day's advance towards our death. [ Proverb ]

Death openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. [ Bacon ]

Death is bitter to a man in prosperity, or in much business. [ Proverb ]

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons. [ GoldonL  ]

Death hath nothing terrible in it but what life hath made so. [ Proverb ]

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. [ Beecher ]

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. [ Martial ]

All our days travel toward death, and the last one reaches it. [ Montaigne ]

To our graves we walk In the thick footprints of departed men. [ Alex. Smith ]

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. [ Seneca ]

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

The tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is a passage: the more rapidly it is crossed, the better.

In our world, death deputes intemperance to do the work of age. [ Young ]

Death, as the psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is an equal doom to good and bad, the common inn of rest. [ Spenser ]

Men must endure their going hence. Even as their coming hither. [ William Shakespeare ]

The tall, the wise, the reverend head. Must lie as low as ours. [ Isaac Watts ]

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death. [ Cicero ]

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. [ Martial ]

Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. [ Milton ]

Teach him how to live, And, oh? still harder lesson! how to die. [ Bishop Porteus ]

Deep rest, and sweet, most like indeed to death's own quietness. [ Virgil ]

Stagnation is something worse than death, it is corruption also. [ Simms ]

If one know them they are in the terrors of the shadow of death. [ Bible ]

A good man has more hope in his death, than a wicked in his life. [ Proverb ]

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

He that hath a will to die by himself. Fears it not from another. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is the waitingroom where we robe ourselves for immortality. [ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon ]

We thought her dying while she slept, and sleeping when she died. [ Hood ]

Death borders upon our birth; and our cradle stands in our grave. [ Bishop Hall ]

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! [ Beecher ]

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life. [ Coleridge ]

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. [ John Kay ]

Death hath not so ghastly a face at a distance as it hath at hand. [ Proverb ]

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. [ Seneca ]

Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow. [ William Shakespeare ]

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure.
The dread of censure is the death of genius. [ Simms ]

My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

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! [ Southey ]

Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men. [ Juvenal ]

The farthest from the fear are often Dearest to the stroke of fate. [ Young ]

There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair! [ Longfellow ]

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [ Cicero ]

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world. [ Ariosto ]

Going out into life - that is dying. Christ is the door out of life. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

I have often thought of death, and I find it the least of all evils. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. [ Donne ]

Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God. [ Parnell ]

But, oh! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early. [ Burns ]

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. [ Dryden ]

Falstaff sweats to death, and lards the lean earth as he walks along. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [ Ovid ]

Death and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

We are dying from our very birth, and our end hangs on our beginning. [ Manilius ]

The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. [ Longfellow ]

Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We die that we may die no more. [ Hooker ]

There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose it. [ Owen Meredith ]

Necessity is a sore penance; and extremity is as hard to bear as death. [ Cantacuzenus ]

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Death and the sun are two things not to be looked on with a steady eye. [ Proverb ]

Death never happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives. [ La Bruyere ]

This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death! [ Martial ]

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. [ Alexander Smith ]

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death. [ Bible ]

Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first. [ De Boufflers ]

Old age is a tyrant that forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Before decay's effacing fingers have swept the lines where beauty lingers. [ Byron ]

Death once seen at our hearth, leaves a shadow which abides there forever. [ Lady Willoughby ]

I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. [ Bible ]

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. [ Zeno ]

Children increase the cares of life, but mitigate the remembrance of death. [ Proverb ]

Yes, death - the hourly possibility of it - death is the sublimity of life. [ Mountford ]

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. [ La Bruyere ]

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Sometimes death is a punishment; often a gift; it has been a favor to many. [ Seneca ]

Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place. [ Carlyle ]

Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all. [ Prope rti us ]

Death is a certain remedy for the injuries of fortune and vexations of life. [ Proverb ]

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. [ Lucan ]

Time, the prime minister of death! there's nought can bribe his honest will. [ Marvell ]

Kings and mightiest potentates must die, For that's the end of human misery. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dreams cannot picture a world so fair; sorrow and death may not enter there. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

To destroy the idea of the immortality of the soul is to add death to death. [ Mme. de Souza ]

There is no finite life except unto death; no death except unto higher life. [ Bunsen ]

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seem beautiful. [ Ouida ]

So live, that thy young and glowing breast can think of death without a sigh. [ Eliza Cook ]

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms. [ William Shakespeare ]

Away! we know that tears are vain, that death never heeds nor hears distress. [ Byron ]

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. [ Bible ]

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat. [ J. F. Boyes ]

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

A moment lived in paradise is not purchased too dearly at the ransom of death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Who knows that 'tis not life which we call death, and death our life on earth? [ Euripides ]

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. [ William Law ]

No better armor against the darts of death than to be busied in God's service. [ Thomas Fuller ]

On this side and on that, men see their friends drop off like leaves in autumn. [ Blair ]

If one was to think constantly of death the business of life would stand still. [ Johnson ]

One may live as a conquerer, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die as a man. [ Daniel Webster ]

Who now travels that dark path to the bourne from which they say no one returns. [ Catullus ]

Death possesses a good deal of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. [ Hawthorne ]

Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [ Ovid ]

It is uncertain at what place death awaits thee. Wait thou for it at every place. [ Seneca ]

Good-bye, proud world; I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. [ Emerson ]

And when obedient nature knows his will, a fly, a grapestone, or a hair can kill. [ Prior ]

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. [ Ilosea Ballou ]

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep. [ Beaumont ]

The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative, but is the death of poetical invention. [ Shenstone ]

Satire lies about men of letters during their life, and eulogy after their death. [ Voltaire ]

Between the business of life and the day of death a space ought to be interposed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite! divine! [ Young ]

Man's caution often into danger turns, and his guard falling crushes him to death. [ Young ]

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. [ George Eliot ]

If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil. [ Bruyere ]

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. [ Chapin ]

All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. [ Bryant ]

To fear death is the way to live long; to be afraid of death is to be long a dying. [ Quarles ]

The father sighs more at the death of one son, than he smiles at the birth of many. [ Proverb ]

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. [ Mme. de Stael ]

I was all ear, and took in strains that might create a soul under the ribs of death. [ Milton ]

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. [ Homer ]

The good die first; and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket. [ Wordsworth ]

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. [ Bacon ]

The divinity who rules within us forbids us to leave this world without his command. [ Cicero ]

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Sleep hath its own world, a boundary between the things misnamed death and existence. [ Byron ]

Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death. [ Young ]

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. [ Lowell ]

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things - law and war. [ Bailey ]

There is no death. The thing that we call death is but another, sadder name for life. [ Stoddard ]

When I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared. [ Caesar Borgia ]

That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe. [ Milton ]

Two ways are open for thee out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other to death. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life. [ Johnson ]

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. [ Whittier ]

Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could preserve from death's hand this their heavenly mould. [ Carew ]

He gave his honours to the world again. His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. [ William Shakespeare ]

No one would ever meet death in defence of his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [ Louis XIV ]

Life is disease of which sleep relieves us; it is but a palliative: death is the remedy. [ Chamfort ]

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril. [ Pascal ]

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror; For now he lives in Fame, though not in life. [ William Shakespeare ]

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. [ Leonard Nimoy, Tweeted Feb. 22, 2015, five days before his death ]

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. [ Bible ]

Men drop so fast, ere life's mid stage we tread, Few know so many friends alive, as dead. [ Young ]

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? [ Gray ]

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. [ Johnson ]

The sands are number'd, that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end. [ William Shakespeare ]

Pale death enters with impartial step the cottages of the poor and the palaces of the rich. [ Horace ]

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. [ Shenstone ]

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [ Ovid ]

One can survive everything except Death, and live down everything except a good reputation. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Satire lies respecting literary men during their life, and eulogy does so after their death. [ Voltaire ]

When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it. [ Pascal ]

It is easy in adversity to despise death; real fortitude has he who can dare to be wretched. [ Seneca ]

All things are double, one against another. Good is set against evil, and life against death. [ Ecclus ]

Death came with friendly care, the opening bud to heaven conveyed, and bade it blossom there. [ Coleridge ]

We hope to grow old, yet we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and shrink from death. [ La Bruyère ]

Death shuns the naked throat and proffered breast; he flies when called to be a welcome guest. [ Sir Charles Sedley ]

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgment sound. [ Plautus ]

We bury love; forgetfulness grows over it like grass; that is a thing to weep for, not the dead. [ Alexander Smith ]

Born to be ploughed with years, and sown with cares, and reaped by Death, lord of the human soil. [ Byron ]

Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death; only little men do that. [ John Ruskin ]

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. [ Martial ]

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for. He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us. [ Babcock ]

'Tis the cessation of our breath. Silent and motionless we lie; And no one knoweth more than thig. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The death of your first wife made such an impression in your heart, that all the rest fly through. [ Proverb ]

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, the deep, damp vault, the darkness and tbe worm. [ Young ]

To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies. [ Auerbach ]

I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. [ Cicero ]

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [ Goethe ]

My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee. [ Christian Scriver ]

You cannot save men from death but by facing it for them, nor from sin but by resisting it for them. [ John Ruskin ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

Suns may set and rise; we, when our short day is closed, must sleep on during one never-ending night. [ Catullus ]

There is a remedy for everything but death, who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches. [ Cervantes ]

The angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. [ John Bright ]

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God? [ Pascal ]

This day which thou fearest so much, and which thou callest thy last, is the birthday of an eternity. [ Seneca ]

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, no life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death. [ Tennyson ]

To die, I own, is a dread passage - terrible to nature, chiefly to those who have, like me, been happy. [ Thomson ]

Men in general do not live as if they looked to die; and therefore do not die as if they looked to live. [ Manton ]

Death is a silent, peaceful genius, who rocks our second childhood to sleep in the cradle of the coffin. [ Chatfield ]

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. [ Chamfort ]

It is vain for the coward to fly; death follows close behind; it is by defying it that the brave escape. [ Voltaire ]

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life. [ George MacDonald ]

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. [ Richter ]

Death to the Christian is the funeral of all his sorrows and evils, and the resurrection of all his joys. [ Aughey ]

The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve. [ Montaigne ]

I heard that God had called your mother home to heaven. It will seem more than ever like home to you now. [ Babcock ]

To judge of the real importance of an individual, one should think of the effect his death would produce. [ Levis ]

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. [ Franklin ]

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal. [ Tupper ]

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death. [ John Ruskin ]

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. [ Southern ]

When death consents to let us live a long time, it takes successively as hostages all those we have loved. [ Mme. Necker ]

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. [ Bacon ]

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. [ Cicero ]

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. [ Babcock ]

In experiencing the ills of nature, one despises death; in learning the evils of society, one despises life. [ Chamfort ]

One dies twice: to cease to live is nothing, but to cease to love and to be loved is an insupportable death. [ Voltaire ]

Adulation is the death of virtue. Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest, save he who courts the flattery. [ Hannah More ]

Death is but another phase of life, which also is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to heaven and hell. [ Carlyle ]

Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest, he loses a subject. [ Thomas Paine ]

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. [ Dickens ]

Like other tyrants, death delights to smite what, smitten, most proclaims the pride of power and arbitrary nod. [ Young ]

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. [ Cicero ]

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. [ Herder ]

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad. [ Johnson ]

Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon. [ Sterne ]

A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. [ Swedenborg ]

Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial. [ Propertius ]

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over. [ Landor ]

It is silliness to live when to live is a torment; and then we have a prescription to die when death is our physician. [ William Shakespeare ]

If life be a pleasure, yet, since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us. [ Michael Angelo ]

Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. [ Metastasio ]

So long as people are subject to disease and death, they will run after physicians, however much they may deride them. [ La Bruyere ]

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. [ Hume ]

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? [ William Shakespeare ]

Of all the evils of the world which are reproached with an evil character, death is the most innocent of its accusation. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. [ Agathon ]

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream - it may be so the moment after death. [ Hawthorne ]

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him. [ Addison ]

Life is rather a state of embryo, - a preparation for life. A man is not completely born until he has passed through death. [ Franklin ]

The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half of time which heals us. [ Richter ]

The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. [ Ovid ]

Nothing can we call our own but death, and that small model of the barren earth which serves as paste and cover to our bones. [ William Shakespeare ]

Learn to dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes more freely than thou. [ Bürger ]

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. [ Thomas Chalmers ]

As for me, give me turtle or give me death. What is life without turtle? nothing. What is turtle without life? nothinger still. [ Artemus Ward ]

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant. [ Pascal ]

Look forward a little further to the period when all the noise and tumult and business of this world shall have closed forever. [ J. G. Pike ]

There are some moral conditions in which Death smiles upon us, as smiles a silent and peaceful night upon the exhausted laborer. [ Alfred Mercier ]

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. [ William Wake ]

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. [ H. W. Beecher ]

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. [ Johnson ]

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom. [ Wm. Mountford ]

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. [ Thomas Paine ]

Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth. [ Victor Hugo ]

In the destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven. [ Dickens ]

Everything falls and is effaced. A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet, so much tumult on the surface! [ Victor Hugo ]

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed at the sound of it and it is formidable only from that which preceded it. [ C. C. Colton ]

Part with it as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth: and what its worth ask death-beds; they can tell. [ Young ]

'Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet. [ Massinger ]

To the Christian, these shades are the golden haze which heaven's light makes, when it meets the earth, and mingles with its shadows. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empires of the earth. [ James A. Garfield ]

Death is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration - the secret alembics of vitality. [ Chapin ]

Dead is she? No; rather let us call ourselves dead, who tire so soon in the service of the Master whom she has gone to serve forever. [ W. S. Smart ]

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded, and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being. [ Rev. Dr. Hedge ]

The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. [ George Eliot ]

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. [ Chapin ]

Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death. [ Plato ]

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. [ Legouve ]

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]

Death, of all estimated evils, is the only one whose presence never incommoded anybody, and which only causes concern during its absence. [ Arcesilaus ]

To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

O gentle sleep! my welcome breath shall hail thee midst our mortal strife, who art the very thief of life, the very portraiture of death. [ Alonzo de Ledesma ]

Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. [ Bacon ]

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face. [ Rev. T. Adams ]

The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death. [ William Shakespeare ]

We look at death through the cheapglazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. [ Lowell ]

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings. [ Metastasio ]

Is death more cruel from a private dagger than in the field from murdering swords of thousands? Or does the number slain make slaughter glorious? [ Gibber ]

Would you console yourself when you die for parting from those with whom you liked to live? Think that they will be soon consoled for your death.

Everything comes and goes. Today in joy, tomorrow in sorrow. We advance, we retreat, we struggle; then, the eternal and profound silence of death! [ Victor Hugo ]

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

The world never forgives our talents, our successes, our friends, nor our pleasures. It only forgives our death. Nay, it does not always pardon that. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]

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. [ South ]

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. [ Swift ]

How beautiful it is for a man to die on the walls of Zion! to be called like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, to put his armor off, and rest in heaven. [ N. P. Willis ]

Cullen whispered in his last moments: I wish I had the power of writing or speaking, for then I would describe to you how pleasant a thing it is to die. [ Dr. Derby ]

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

His last day places man in the same state as he was before he was born; nor after death has the body or soul any more feeling than they had before birth. [ Pliny the Elder ]

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint. [ Montaigne ]

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. [ Fontenelle ]

Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone{} (wenn du lange dahin bist). [ Friedrich Schiller ]

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. [ Chapin ]

Sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave like one that wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. [ Bryant ]

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only a long and painful sickness. [ Massillon ]

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console. [ Colton ]

When a man dies they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]

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. [ Sterne ]

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. [ Hosea Ballou ]

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. [ Emerson ]

Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colours. [ Ward Beecher ]

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. [ T. W. Higginson ]

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. [ St. Augustine ]

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep, - we are on the death-bed. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. [ Thomas Fuller ]

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil - and hath it not? - then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them. [ Hawthorne ]

He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]

Superstition is in its death-lair; the last agonies may endure for decades or for centuries; but it carries the iron in its heart, and will not vex the earth any more. [ Carlyle ]

Is it not the realization of his enforced sufferings in this world that gives man the hope of a better life after death, as a just compensation for the miseries in this? [ De Finod ]

Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more since yesterday. Already, kneeling at the throne, she has received her welcome, and is resting on the bosom of her Saviour. [ Hawthorne ]

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger. [ Quarles ]

Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. [ Bacon ]

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. [ Horace Mann ]

Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven! By tyrant life dethroned, imprisoned, pained? By death enlarged, ennobled, deifyed? Death but entombs the body; life the soul. [ Young ]

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

O future ages, what will be your fate? Glory, like a shadow, has returned to heaven; Love no longer exists; life is devastated; and man, left alone, believes but in Death. [ A. de Musset ]

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement. [ Carlyle ]

But since, however protracted, death will come. Why fondly study, with ingenious pains. To put it off? - To breathe a little longer is to defer our fate, but not to shun it. [ Hannah More ]

Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature. [ Sears ]

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother. [ Bulwer ]

All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, fill the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

There are treasures laid up in the heart - treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death, when he leaves this world. [ Buddhist Scriptures ]

Everything dies, and on this spring morning, if I lay my ear to the ground, I seem to hear from every point of the compass the heavy step of men who carry a corpse to its burial. [ Madame de Gasparin ]

What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity. [ La Bruyere ]

The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. [ Baxter ]

We so converse every night with the image of death that every morning we find an argument of the resurrection. Sleep and death have but one mother, and they have one name in common. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else: but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. [ William Law ]

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. [ Mark Twain's last words, written on a note by his death bed ]

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment. [ Lowell ]

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace, from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [ William Shakespeare ]

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns. [ Robert Herrick ]

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who so lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die. [ Owen Feltham ]

Death alone of the gods loves not gifts, nor do you need to offer incense or libations; he cares not for altar nor hymn; the goddess of Persuasion alone of the gods has no power over him. [ Horace ]

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]

No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. [ Euripides ]

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. [ Alexander Smith ]

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus ]

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. [ Ausonius ]

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress. [ Hugh R. Haweis ]

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. [ Schiller ]

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into the valley of the shadow of death. [ Mountford ]

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. [ Daniel Webster ]

The truth of it is, there is nothing in history which is so improving to the reader as those accounts which we meet with of the death of eminent persons and of their behavior in that dreadful season. [ Addison ]

At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely. [ Luther ]

All life is surrounded by a great circumference of death; but to the believer in Jesus, beyond this surrounding death is a boundless sphere of life. He has only to die once to be done with death forever. [ James Hamilton ]

A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery. [ J. Locke ]

Nature has lent us life, as we do a sum of money; only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that we received it? [ Cicero ]

Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]

In the whole course of our observation there is not so misrepresented and abused a personage as Death. The shortest life is long enough if it lead to a better, and the longest life is too short if it does not. [ Colton ]

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves! [ Dickens ]

If I were a writer of books, I would compile a register, with the comment of the various deaths of men; and it could not but be useful, for who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live. [ Montaigne ]

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. [ Epictetus ]

What with the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or pleasure. It gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

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. [ Richter ]

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it. [ Seneca ]

Poetry, like truth, is a common flower. God has sown it over the earth like daisies, sprinkled with tears, or glowing in the sun, even as he places the crocus and the March frosts together, and beautifully mingles life and death. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. [ Pascal ]

The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a house of mourning, I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

When at last the angels come to convey your departing spirit to Abraham's bosom, depend upon it, however dazzling in their newness they may be to you. you will find that your history is no novelty, and you yourself no stranger to them. [ James Hamilton ]

Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]

Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death. [ Martial ]

There is before the eyes of men, on the brink of dissolution, a glassy film, which death appears to impart, that they may have a brief prospect of eternity when some behold the angels of light, while others have the demons of darkness before them. [ Cockton ]

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]

The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder. [ Hippel ]

Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts; and to deny ourselves all present satisfaction, or to expose ourselves to so much hazard for this, were as great madness as to starve ourselves, or fight desperately for food, to be laid on our tombs after our death. [ Mackenzie ]

If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy - think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery. [ Carlyle ]

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. [ Longfellow ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating, rather than depressing, ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe? [ Richter ]

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! [ Quarles ]

In the use of the tongue God hath distinguished us from beasts, and by the well or ill using it we are distinguished from one another; and therefore, though silence be innocent as death, harmless as a rose's breath to a distant passenger, yet it is rather the state of death than life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Poetry can make even the thought of death beautiful, and the sadness of bereavement not without a certain pleasure. Great poets have elicited from the sternest suffering a principle of enjoyment. Sublime faith and earnest love can conjure spirits the most lovely from the darkest abyss. [ Tuckerman ]

When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal. So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. [ Ruskin ]

The failure of his mind in old age is often less the result of natural decay than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment brings indolence: indolence, decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. [ Sir Benjamin Brodie ]

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. [ Martin Luther ]

After the fever of life - after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding - after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death - at length the white throne of God - at length the beatific vision. [ Newman ]

It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]

The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. [ Bryant ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating rather than to depressing ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe, composed of countless suns and worlds, all full of light and life and motion? [ Richter ]

Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle, so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature, - may almost say, I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now. [ Leigh Hunt ]

It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will last you until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. [ Trollope ]

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]

The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]

It is a hasty conclusion, and one which marks an inadequate apprehension of the nature of friendship, to say we lose a friend when he dies; death is not only unable to quench the genuine sense of friendship between the living and the dead, but it is also unable to prevent the going forth of a real feeling of friendship for the dead whom, it may be, we have never known at all. [ H. C. Trumbull ]

Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all - but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. [ Coleridge ]

A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]

death in Scrabble®

The word death is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters death:

DEATH
(39)
HATED
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word death

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In death

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death in Words With Friends™

The word death is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters death:

HATED
(42)
DEATH
(42)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word death

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In death

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DEATH
(42)
HEAD
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HEAT
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