Death Quotes by Edward Young

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

— Edward Young

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

— Edward Young

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

— Edward Young

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

— Edward Young

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

— Edward Young

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

— Edward Young

We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

— Edward Young

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

— Edward Young

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

— Edward Young

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

— Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

— Edward Young

Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than…

— Edward Young

This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut,…

— Edward Young

Some go to Church, proud humbly to repent, And come back much more guilty than they went: One way they look, another…

— Edward Young

Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply…

— Edward Young

A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

— Edward Young

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

— Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

— Edward Young

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

— Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

— Edward Young

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

— Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

— Edward Young

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

— Edward Young

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

— Edward Young

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

— Edward Young

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and…

— Edward Young