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“Only death does not lie.”

Doe Death Lying

Book:The Blind Owl

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