Alexander Pope Quotes about Death

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Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

Alexander Pope

Death, Youth, Dies

Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.12

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

Alexander Pope

Friendship, Death, Losing Friends

Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Alexander Pope

Death, Pain, Rage

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

Alexander Pope

Death, Hero, Funeral

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.321

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Alexander Pope

Death, Men, Suffering

Homerus, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Odyssey”, p.126

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

Alexander Pope

Life, Death, Fall

Alexander Pope, “Windsor Forest”

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Alexander Pope

Life, Death, Fancy

Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). “An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.101