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Death Quotes by George Eliot
- The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving…
- All our ignorance brings us closer to death.
- It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is…
- The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but…
- Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
- In every parting there is an image of death.
- Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
- When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life…
- Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
- When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare…
More Death Quotes
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- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden