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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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Summer Quotes

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

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We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Death Quotes , Kings Quotes

There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Death Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

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Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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Where all life dies death lives.

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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

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O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

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Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

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Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

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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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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Death Quotes , Cry Quotes