Bad thing Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang…

— Orlando Gibbons

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing…

— Socrates

And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They…

— Heinrich Heine

The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and…

— Margaret Starbird

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

— Henry Miller

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog…

— Dr. Seuss

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her…

— Phineas Fletcher

“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary…

— Arthur Golden

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

“A Cuckoo should never dance and a Peacock should not try to sing! (Acknowledge all the troubles and failures in our lives.)”

— Sudha Murty

Birds don't sing after a storm, they sing before the next one.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic