Cold Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure…

— Robert Blair

“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it…

— Robert W. Chambers

“There is nothing in the world so difficult as that task of making up one's mind. Who is there that has not longed that…

— Anthony Trollope

“He who from fate receives but blow on blow, Who, like myself in her disfavour stands, Although he had a hundred mighty hands, Would…

— France Prešeren

“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”

— Robert W. Chambers

“He put his hand over my mouth. His hand felt warm, full of blood, the hand of a living man. “Death is a gift,…

— Douglas Clegg

I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who…

— John James Ingalls

“Fierce and solitary he awaited death, mistrustful and hostile to all”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So…

— John Keats

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death,…

— Chief Seattle

“Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially mortals whose…

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our…

— Joseph Warren