John Donne Quotes, Death Quotes, Grief Quotes

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

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We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd arms, may bear My breathless Baucis to the sepulchre.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Death Quotes , Tears Quotes

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

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MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Death Quotes , Moving Quotes

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Death Quotes , Loyal Quotes

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Death Quotes , Shadow Quotes

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Death Quotes , Home Quotes

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Sad Quotes , Death Quotes

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

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The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Honesty Quotes

Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.

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I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Death Quotes , Believe Quotes

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

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