Death Quotes by George Herbert

Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]

— George Herbert

“Death used to be an executioner, but the gospel has made him just a gardner.”

— George Herbert

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

— George Herbert

The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.

— George Herbert

A faire death honours the whole life.

— George Herbert

In war, hunting, and love, men for one pleasure a thousand griefes prove.

— George Herbert

After so many deaths I live and write;

— George Herbert

Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.

— George Herbert

Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.

— George Herbert

He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.

— George Herbert

All griefes with bread are lesse.

— George Herbert

Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.

— George Herbert

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

— George Herbert

Those that God loves, do not live long.

— George Herbert

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

— George Herbert

The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.

— George Herbert

Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.

— George Herbert

When age is jocond it makes sport for death. [When age is jocund, it makes sport for death.]

— George Herbert

“Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire,”

— George Herbert

Warre is deaths feast.

— George Herbert

A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

— George Herbert

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

— George Herbert

He that feares death lives not.

— George Herbert

War is death's feast.

— George Herbert

“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,…

— George Herbert