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William Ernest Henley has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,…
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.
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So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark…
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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
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Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my…
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Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
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Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all…
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And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
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Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with…
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[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the…
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
— J. B. Priestley
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Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.
— Janet Morris
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we…
— Will Durant
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great…
— William Cobbett
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To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old…
— Albert Einstein
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To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on…
— Brian Jones
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Death, like virtue, has its degrees.
— James O'Barr
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