T. S. Eliot Quotes, Death Quotes, Poetry Quotes

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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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, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Sleep 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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One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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For now they kill me with a living death.

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

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O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

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One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

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The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

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Life is going forth; death is returning home.

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Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

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

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Death Quotes , Night Quotes

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

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