Death Quotes
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.
How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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