John Donne Quotes, Death Quotes, Exercise Quotes

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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One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

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He would make a lovely corpse.

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I shall not altogether die.

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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Vanity Quotes

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Death Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Death Quotes , Peace Quotes

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.

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

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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