T. S. Eliot Quotes, Death Quotes, Skulls Quotes

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

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

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All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Lying Quotes

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Death Quotes , Believe Quotes

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

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Tags : Catullus Quotes , Death Quotes , Dark Quotes

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Running Quotes

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Death Quotes , Rocks Quotes

Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

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MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Death Quotes , Moving Quotes

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Death Quotes , Years Quotes

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

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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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