Death Quote by Thomas Browne Sr

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs…

— John Milton

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor…

— John Dryden

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendor that God has created, but we shall get them one day, and…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set…

— Thomas Mann

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the…

— Susanna Moodie

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning…

— Anonymous

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies.…

— Abd-ar-Rahman III

“I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death,…

— Emily Brontë

“Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point which we distinguish there one of those which vanish? The ideal…

— Victor Hugo

Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to…

— Dodinsky

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear…

— Anonymous