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Image of Archibald MacLeish
What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.
- Archibald MacLeish
Collection: Death
Image of Federico Garcia Lorca
In the garden I will die. In the rosebush they will kill me.
- Federico Garcia Lorca
Collection: Death
Image of Christopher Marlowe
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
- Christopher Marlowe
Collection: Death
Image of John Masefield
Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.
- John Masefield
Collection: Death
Image of Marilyn Manson
When you get to heaven, you will wish you were in hell.
- Marilyn Manson
Collection: Death
Image of Herman Melville
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Death
Image of Martin Luther
At the last, when we die, we have the dear angels for our escort on the way. They who can grasp the whole world in their hands can surely also guard our souls, that they make that last journey safely.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Death
Image of George R. R. Martin
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
- George R. R. Martin
Collection: Death
Image of Marilyn Manson
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
- Marilyn Manson
Collection: Death
Image of Cormac McCarthy
They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Death
Image of David McCullough
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
- David McCullough
Collection: Death
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death is better than disease.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Death
Image of H. L. Mencken
When I reach the shades at last it will no doubt astonish Satan to discover, on thumbing my dossier, that I was a member of the Y.M.C.A.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Death
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The young may die, but the old must!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Death
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Death
Image of Norman Mailer
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.
- Norman Mailer
Collection: Death
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Death
Image of James Russell Lowell
The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.
- James Russell Lowell
Collection: Death
Image of Philip Massinger
Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.
- Philip Massinger
Collection: Death
Image of Herman Melville
In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Death
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Death
Image of H. L. Mencken
The dying man doesn't struggle much and he isn't much afraid. As his alkalies give out he succumbs to a blest stupidity. His mindfogs. His will power vanishes. He submits decently. He scarcely gives a damn.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Death
Image of Bill Maher
Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Death
Image of H. L. Mencken
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Death
Image of Cormac McCarthy
Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Death
Image of Cormac McCarthy
Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Death
Image of Niccolo Machiavelli
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Collection: Death
Image of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Collection: Death
Image of Martin Luther
What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.
- Martin Luther
Collection: Death
Image of John Quincy Adams
This is the last of earth! I am content.
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: Death
Image of Herman Melville
O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written--Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.
- Herman Melville
Collection: Death
Image of Carson McCullers
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
- Carson McCullers
Collection: Death
Image of Norm MacDonald
The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.
- Norm MacDonald
Collection: Death
Image of Cormac McCarthy
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Collection: Death