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Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes about Death

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In the stars is written the death of every man.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Death, Stars, Men
Geoffrey Chaucer (1940). “The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Now First Put Into Modern English”

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Death, Pain, Ends
Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.180, Barron's Educational Series

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Death, Long Ago, Flow
Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars, and poverty behind; Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores, And the rash hunter strangled by the boars; The newborn babe by nurses overlaid; And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Death, War, Fighting
John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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