Francis Bacon Quotes, Death Quotes, Fear Quotes

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

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In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

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To conquer death you only have to die.

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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.

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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death Quotes , Dust Quotes

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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

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We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.

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God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

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

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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

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