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Death Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death.
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
- And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of…
- If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of…
- did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea,…
- Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
- Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many…
- I expected this reception. All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- 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