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Death Quotes - Page 77

Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson (1857). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet”, p.277

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs, Claude PĂ©lieu (1971). “Jack Kerouac”

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.133

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

William Blake, “Proverbs Of Hell (Excerpt From The Marriage Of Heaven And H”

Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.

Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

"What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

William Stanley Merwin, “For The Anniversary Of My Death”

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.268

There are remedies for all things but death.

Thomas Carlyle (1858). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.81

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.188, Copper Canyon Press