7 Hilaire Belloc Quotes on Death

Hilaire Belloc quotes on death

8. Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

10. In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.

24. You shall receive me when the clouds are high With evening and the sheep attain the fold. This is the faith that I have held and hold, And this is that in which I mean to die.

29. When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, But his books were read'.

33. So touch my dying lip: so bridge that deep: So pledge my waking from the gift of sleep, And, sacramental, raise me the Divine: Strong brother in God and last companion, Wine.

44. Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.

48. Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took their fees, 'There is no cure for this disease.'