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Death Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
- Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
- Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
- Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
- Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
- Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.
- God's finger touched him, and he slept.
- Authority forgets a dying king.
- I came in haste with cursing breath, And heart of hardest steel; But when I saw thee cold in death, I felt as man should…
- Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as…
- Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
- Never, oh! never, nothing will die; The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die.
- For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each…
- Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.
- No life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death.
- Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be…
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