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They do neither plight nor wed In the city of the dead, In the city where they sleep away the hours. - Richard Eugene Burton, City of the Dead We wonder if this can be really the close, Life's fever cooled by death's trance; And we cry, though it seems to our dearest of foes, "God give us another chance." - Richard Eugene Burton, Song of the Unsuccessful The fear of death is worse than death. [Lat., Timor mortis morte pejor.] - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy Friend Ralph! thou hast Outrun the constable at last! - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 1,367) Before decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Dead! God, how much there is in that little word! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) I live, But live to die: and living, see no thing To make death hateful, save an ornate clinging, A loathsome and yet all invincible Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I Despise myself, yet cannot overcome--And so I live. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) I must sleep now. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), his dying words The first dark day of nothingness. The last of danger and distress. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Thy day without a cloud bath pass'd, And thou wert lovely to the last; Extinguish'd not decay'd! As stars that shoot along the sky Shine brightest as they fall from high. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Down to the dust!--and, as thou rott'st away, Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), A Sketch Heaven gives its favourites--early death. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 102) Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 179) Ah! surely nothing dies but something mourns! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto III, st. 108) "Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IV, st. 12) Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto XIV, st. 3) Oh, God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Prisoner of Chillon (st. 8) Brougham delivered a very warm panegyric upon the ex-Chancellor, and expressed a hope that he would make a good end, although to an expiring Chancellor death was now armed with a new terror. - Thomas Campbell, Lives of the Chancellors (vol. VII, p. 163) And I still onward haste to my last night; Time's fatal winds do ever forward fly; So every day we live, a day we die. - Thomas Campion, Divine and Moral Songs Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could preserve from death's hand this their heavenly mould. - Thomas Carew Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. - George Carlin I want to meet my God awake. - Thomas Carlyle There are remedies for all things but death. - Thomas Carlyle His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Burns The man who dies rich dies disgraced. - Andrew Carnegie Displaying page 6 of 36 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
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