Best breaths & death Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?”

Made Life Is Death Heaven Fire Inspire Equal Elements Spring Breaths Flames Immortal Fables

Author:Francis Quarles

“Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.”

Death Draws Breaths Seven Inches Precarious

Book:The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,

Source: The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis,

“There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.”

Death Night Sleep Break Terrible Breaths Casts Dawn Repose Robes

Author:Robert Montgomery

“Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.”

Death Dies Voice Wind Breaths Infant Hue Dolphins

Book:Fanny

Source: Fanny

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.”

Home Age Earth Lasts Death Universe Duty Breaths This Life Remembered Regions Coming Of Age Infinity Splendor Apprenticeship

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the world contains, The folded orbs would open at thy breath, And from its exile in the Isles of Death Life would come gladly back along my veins.”

Ifs World Should Believe Death Lying Dies I Believe Cold Kissing Breaths Dumb Veins Exile Life Death Eyelids Isle Orbs

Book:Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend

Source: Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend

“Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!”

Death Sides Heard Eternity Breaths Disappointed Tides

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.”

“the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath”

Moving Death Time Tree Breaths

Book:Poems, 1938-1949

Source: Poems, 1938-1949

“Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.”

People Lasts Death Doors Dying Died Breaths Longing Mansions Deserted

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”

Life Death Dies Choices Freedom Minutes Breaths Suicide Suicidal Be Or Not To Be

Book:Survivor: A Novel

Source: Survivor: A Novel

“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.”

Years Mind Death Behinds Dying Balance Waste Breaths This Life Balanced

Author:William Butler Yeats

“A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?”

Knows Life Feels Should Children Death Simple Draws Breaths Limbs Criminal Mind

Author:William Wordsworth

“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.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.”

“What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.”

Life Death Fame Breaths Fancy

Book:An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

Source: An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester

“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Knows Earth Death Nature Dying Garden Breaths Smell Decay Scent Impermanence Desolation Regeneration Fertilizer Garden Love Compost

Book:Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

“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!”

Death Time Fall Stars Dying Wind Flower Seasons Breaths Impermanence North Wind

Author:John Milton

“A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.”

Men Death Force Breaths Teeth Slips Trading Back Again Achilles Iliad Raiders Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate

Book:The Iliad

Source: The Iliad

“'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.”

Men Play Whole Body Death Dies Prayer Dying Breaths Rap Whole Life Tricks Kicks Guts Candle Memorial Sneak Snuff

Book:Don Quixote

Source: Don Quixote

“They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.”

Knows Persons Body Lasts Death Dies Names Dying Breaths

Author:Al Pacino

“Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.”

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