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01c. 1612 AD

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

Philip Massinger / quote

02Undated

One foot in the grave.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

03Undated

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

04c. 1627 AD

Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be?

George Wither / quote

05c. 1633 AD

No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes / quote

06c. 1614 AD

An untimely grave.

Thomas Carew / quote

07c. 1618 AD

Death aims with fouler spite At fairer marks.

Francis Quarles / quote

08c. 1618 AD

It is the lot of man but once to die.

Francis Quarles / quote

09c. 1612 AD

After death the doctor.

George Herbert / quote

10c. 1631 AD

The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hands on kings.

James Shirley / quote

11c. 1631 AD

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

James Shirley / quote

12c. 1643 AD

The thousand doors that lead to death.

Sir Thomas Browne / quote

13c. 1643 AD

Sleep is a death; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed!

Sir Thomas Browne / quote

14c. 1643 AD

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

Sir Thomas Browne / quote

15c. 1646 AD

That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

Edmund Waller / quote

16c. 1634 AD

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Thomas Fuller / quote

17c. 1641 AD

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.

John Milton / quote

18c. 1641 AD

With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin: sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air.

John Milton / quote

19c. 1641 AD

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

John Milton / quote

20c. 1641 AD

I fled, and cry'd out, Death! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death!

John Milton / quote

21c. 1641 AD

Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe.

John Milton / quote

22c. 1641 AD

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

John Milton / quote

23c. 1641 AD

Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

John Milton / quote

24c. 1641 AD

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

John Milton / quote