Best death & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Blind Owl

“One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.”

World Enough Wisdom Spiritual Death Lying Hate Regret Gratitude Kissing Dear Determined Deathbed Persia I Am Determined

Author:Hafez

“Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!”

Feels Should Looks Earth Death Lying Poor Enemy Regret Spring Errors Graves Peaceful Resentment Defects Handful Bosoms Recollection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

“About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.”

People Stills Sometimes Home Care Remember Death Lying Streets Dying Sitting Died Shops Death And Dying Physicians Butchers Parlor Relatives And Friends

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Now death is death! and yet is not one death Another death? Stabbing is not the same As shooting! Would you say a strangled man Was drown'd? The end is one, the means are many, And there the difference lies!”

Men Mean Ends Death Lying Differences Shooting Stabbing

Author:Victoria Laurie

“To fear death is the way to live long; to lie afraid of death is to be long a dying.”

Way Long Death Lying Dying Fear Of Death Way To Live Afraid Of Death

Author:Francis Quarles

“The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Ifs Men Made Age Death Lying Grows Tree Fronts Return Spring Stones Remains Winter Fades Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.”

Firsts Made Together Death Lying Graves Distinction Foe

Author:Thomas Southerne

“Death is your truest friend, and your most reliable adviser. If you have doubts about the course of your life, you have only to consult your death for the proper direction. Death will never lie to you.”

Ifs Death Lying Courses Doubt Truest Adviser Never Lie

Author:Florinda Donner

“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.”

Knows Firsts Eye Death Lying Hours Dark Planets Lovers Finals Paradise His Eyes

Author:Gwendolyn MacEwen

“That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.”

Source: Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner

“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

“How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!”

Death Lying Graves Buried Love Lies

Author:Francis Alexander Durivage

“Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.”

Men Death Lying Grows Honor Silent Envy Consumed After Death

Author:Ovid

“The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.”

Life Real Ends Facts Death Lying Causes Sorrow Salvation Cruelty Life Death

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust, The horns of glory blowing above my burial?”

Should Death Lying Glory Dust Should I Horns Burial

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The people you killed seem to be in excellent health.”

People Seems Death Lying Excellent

Author:Pierre Corneille

“But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Men Death Lying Grows Remains Aging

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse

“I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.”

Source: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion

“I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.”

War Death Lying Dark Rocks Died Pits Digging

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.”

Trying Death Lying Sides Determination Curiosity Graves Persistence Afterlife Persist Misplaced

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.”

Men Humans Looks Law Death Lying Dying Species Destroyed Human Species Sentient Beings

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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.”

Men Giving May Lasts Death Lying Speak Voice Cutting Stones Every Man Humankind Last Words Epitaph

Book:Queen Mary. A Drama

Source: Queen Mary. A Drama

“A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”

Ifs Knows Men Believe Said Wisdom Death Lying Suffering Dies Born Knowledge Grace Proud Please Saved Doctrine Loopholes Proud Man

Author:Will Graham

“When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.”

Thinking Life Death Lying Song Bed Musician Appeals Memorable Life And Death Pessimistic

Author:Steven Morrissey

“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.”

Ifs Humans Death Lying Turns Father My Own Destiny Dying Divine Honor Weapons Lays Glad Thankfulness Fatigue My Destiny

Book:RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

Source: RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.”

Death Lying Heaven Atheism Dying Remedy

Author:William Shakespeare

“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.”

Feels Dream Eye Beautiful Death Lying Night Stars Sides Sea Moon Tides Darling Brides Tombs Beam Bright Eyes

Book:The Raven and Other Favorite Poems

Source: The Raven and Other Favorite Poems

“It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.”

Long Death Lying Christ Taken Arms Terrible Husband Mercy Eternity Casts Merit My Husband

Author:Donald Cargill

“Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.”

Ifs Should Made Age Death Lying Dies Culture Animal Bed Sick Stronger Ties Exception Freak Slow Down Unnatural

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.”

War Death Lying Names Water Suicide Epitaph Deathbed Tombstone Gravestone

Author:John Keats

“Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.”

Running Death Lying Clever Live By Liars Chasing

Author:Lyman Beecher

“Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.”

Death Lying Suicide Stranger Command Obedient

Author:Leonidas I

“[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.”

Men Years Would Be Science Death Lying Loss Pay Drink Taxes Profit Graves Enormous Lying Men

Book:The Works of Anton Chekhov

Source: The Works of Anton Chekhov

“Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

Heart Dream Spiritual Death Lying Desire Spring Eternity Silent Depth Seeds Snow Gates Condolences Poems

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

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