Deathbed Quote by Alexander Pope Download Open image “Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.” — Alexander Pope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deathbed Fame Lying
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had. — Nicholas Lea Copy Share Image
And I hope that you die And your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I'll watch while… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I do seem to favor a deathbed confession as the occasion for my dramatic monologues. — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world… — Joe Ehrmann Copy Share Image
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“...nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love… — A.P Copy Share Image
I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is… — John Pawson Copy Share Image
