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Thomas Browne Quotes about Death

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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne
Life, Death, Warrior
Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Thomas Browne
Death, Disease, Cures
'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

(Death is) A leap into the dark.

Thomas Browne
Death, Dark, Leap

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Thomas Browne
Death, Animal, Men
'Hydriotaphia' (Urn Burial, 1658) ch. 5

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

Thomas Browne
Death, Hands, Dying
Thomas Browne (1682). “Religio Medici”, p.100

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Thomas Browne
Death, Prayer, Sleep
Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.446

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

Thomas Browne
Death, Ashamed, Ignominy
'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 40

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Thomas Browne
Death, Pain, World
Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.120

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

Thomas Browne
Death, Desire, May
Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.78

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