Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes, Death Quotes, Lying Quotes

Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

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After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

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If we don't know life, how can we know death?

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O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

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We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

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If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

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Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]

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Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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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.

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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Death Quotes , Sitting 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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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.

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