Quotations About / On: DEATH

  • 41.
    No man may him hide
    From Death hollow-eyed,
    (John Skelton (1460?-1529), British poet. Upon a Dead Man's Head (l. 10-11). . . Seven Centuries of Poetry; Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. A. N. Jeffares, ed. (1955) Longmans, Green & Company.)
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  • 42.
    Death's long anabasis.
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "The Anabasis.")
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  • 43.
    Only death rescues us from dying.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 44.
    Chinese do not repay friendship with death.
    (Joseph O'Donnell, and Clifford Sanforth. Ah Ling, Murder by Television, when he is accused of Perry's murder (1935). From an idea suggested by Clarence Hennecke and Carl Coolidge.)
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  • 45.
    The stained unsightly breath
    Of carious death.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Under a splendid chestnut tree.")
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  • 46.
    I know that winter death has never tried
    The earth but it has failed:
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. The Onset (l. 13-14). . . The Poetry of Robert Frost. Edward Connery Lathem, ed. (1979) Henry Holt.)
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  • 47.
    The Bustle in a House
    The Morning after Death
    (Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The Bustle in a House (l. 1-2). CP-Di. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  • 48.
    One of the new terrors of death.
    (John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), Scottish writer, physician. Quoted in Robert Carruthers, The Poetical Works of Pope, vol. 1, ch. 3 (1853). Arbuthnot referred to Edmund Curll, publisher of brief biographies of eminent people following their deaths.)
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  • 49.
    How oft when men are at the point of death
    Have they been merry! which their keepers call
    A lightning before death: O, how may I
    Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
    Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
    Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:
    Thou art not conquered; beauty's ensign yet
    Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
    And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British poet. Romeo and Juliet (V, iii). . . The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.)
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  • 50.
    Death does determine life.... Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.
    (Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), Italian filmmaker, author. Pasolini on Pasolini: Interviews with Oswald Stack, ch. 3 (1969).)
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