Death Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;”

— Algernon Swinburne

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death…

— John Milton

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe,…

— William Shakespeare

We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

— A. E. Housman

O Earth! all bathed with blood and years, yet never / Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

— Madame de Stael

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against…

— William Shakespeare

O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

— Madame de Stael

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

— George Herbert

“Oh, grassy glades! oh ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthly life,— in…

— Herman Melville

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

— Marcus Aurelius

Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being,…

— William C. Bryant