William Shakespeare Quotes, Death Quotes, Grief Quotes

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

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

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Death Quotes , Suicide Quotes

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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And mighty poets in their misery dead.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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

Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Funny Quotes , Death Quotes

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Death Quotes , Summer Quotes

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Death Quotes , Time Quotes

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Atheist Quotes

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Death Quotes , Age Quotes

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Fall Quotes

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

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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