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One rumor straight comes huddling on another
Of death, and death, and death!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Procession.")
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I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, June 2, 1915. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 2, eds. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton (1981).)
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As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.
(Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946), U.S. poet. Temporary Homelands, "Inside the Wolf," p. 60, Mercury House, San Francisco (1994).)
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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
(Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British author, poet. "Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa," Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829).)
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Howards End, ch. 41 (1910).
After a line from Michelangelo's notebooks.)
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
(Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 17/18), Roman poet. Heroides, 10. 82 (Canace to Macareus).)
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You mustn't be afraid of death. When this ship sailed, death sailed on her.
(Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi), Phantom Ship, talking to Mrs. Briggs about the series of shipboard deaths (1936).)
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
(Enid Bagnold (1889-1981), British novelist, playwright. Autobiography, ch. 16 (1969).)
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Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Macduff, in Macbeth, act 2, sc. 3, l. 76-7.
On the death of Duncan; varying the proverb, "sleep is the image of death.")
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Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay:
The worst is death, and death will have his day.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Richard, in Richard II, act 3, sc. 2, l. 102-3.
Despairing at ever more bad news.)
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