Edward Young Quotes on Death
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Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.
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Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
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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.
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All men think all men mortal but themselves.
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.
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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.
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A death-bed 's a detector of the heart.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay; And if in death still lovely, lovelier there; Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
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Man makes a death which Nature never made.
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
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While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.