William Shakespeare Quotes, Death Quotes, Fame Quotes

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

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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

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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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There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

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I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

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One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

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

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One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

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The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

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But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.

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Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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