The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of… — Ouida Copy Share Image
So what does Tod look like? Whitewashed skeleton skulking around in a black cape and hood? Carrying a scythe? 'Cause I'm thinking… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass. — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
