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Death Quotes by Thomas Browne
- Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.
- We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it…
- Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
- To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
- Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
- Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that…
- Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
- We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.
- Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
- Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun…
- Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own…
- (Death is) A leap into the dark.
- To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the…
- We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
- Death is the cure for all diseases.
- We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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