Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Death Quotes, Land Quotes

Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

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I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

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I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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Speak me fair in death.

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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

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You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

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