15 Edward Young Quotes on Death

Edward Young quotes on death

3. Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.

25. Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

29. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.

30. All men think all men mortal but themselves.

35. Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.

41. The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

42. A death-bed 's a detector of the heart.

43. Virtue alone has majesty in death.

46. Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

48. Man makes a death which Nature never made.

54. Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

56. Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

58. We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

60. While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

62. Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.