Death Quotes by Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

— Ovid

Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death.

— Ovid

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

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Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

— Ovid

An evil life is a kind of death.

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It is the act of a coward to wish for death.

— Ovid

“Omnia mutantur; nihil interit”

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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

— Ovid

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

— Ovid

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

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Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are…

— Ovid

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by…

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We beg one hour of death, that neither she With widow's tears may live to bury me, Nor weeping I, with wither'd…

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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the…

— Ovid

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda…

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What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To…

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We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of…

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Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth…

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Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase being born is…

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“O gods, \ If any gods will listen, I deserve \ Punishment surely, I do not refuse it, \ But lest, in…

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Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

— Ovid

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

— Ovid

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

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Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro…

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Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae…

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid