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Death Quotes by Herman Melville
- We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead…
- And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real…
- None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest…
- The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.
- Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep cool-cucumbers is the…
- The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.
- Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
- Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.…
- All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
- Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote,…
- All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
More Death Quotes
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
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- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- 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