Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: Vedic Funeral Rite, quoted in the "New York Times" on the death of Buffalo Bill
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus
Quotes , Source: Agamemnon (938), earliest reference
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But when the sun in all his state,
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through glory's morning gate,
And walked in Paradise.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Quotes , Source: A Death Bed
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Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space,
In twilight land, in no man's land,
Two hurrying shapes met face to face
And bade each other stand.
"And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,
Shuddering in the glimmering light.
"I know not," said the second shape,
"I only died last night."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Quotes , Source: Identity
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Advanced a stage or two upon that road
Which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Aristophanes
Quotes , Source: Fragment (II), translation by Cumberland
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He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all this friends:
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!"
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine--it is not I.
Edwin Arnold
Quotes , Source: He Who Died at Azan
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: Requiescat
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly.
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: Requiescat
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What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die.
Matthew Arnold
Quotes , Source: Requiescat
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Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the
other.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Essays--Of Death
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Death is the universal salt of states;
Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes , Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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The death-change comes.
Death is another life. We bow our heads
At going out, we think, and enter straight
Another golden chamber of the king's
Larger than this we leave, and lovelier.
And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect,
The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves.
The will of God is all in all. He makes,
Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes , Source: Festus (sc. Home)
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So fades a summer cloud away;
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;
So gently shuts the eye of day;
So dies a wave along the shore.
Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld
Quotes , Source: The Death of the Virtuous
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We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and can that man that does so
Need lamentation for him?
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Quotes , Source: Valentinian (act IV, sc. 4)
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The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in
darkness; and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to
them all.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. II, v. 14)
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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