Quotations About / On: DEATH

One rumor straight comes huddling on another
Of death, and death, and death!
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Procession.")

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
(D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930)

As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.
(Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946), U.S. poet

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet

Is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet

Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay:
The worst is death, and death will have his day.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist

Then is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
(Angela Carter (1940-1992), British postmodern novelist

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
(Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British author, poet

I scare him to death, I don't have to kill him to death.
(Willis Cooper. Rowland V. Lee. Ygor (Bela Lugosi)

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
(Enid Bagnold (1889-1981), British novelist, playwright

Yea, worse than death: death parts both woe and joy:
From joy I part, still living in annoy.
(Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet

Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals.
(Graham Greene (1904-1991), British novelist

Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Philoctetes, l. 797.)

You mustn't be afraid of death. When this ship sailed, death sailed on her.
(Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Anton Lorenzen (Bela Lugosi)

... moving on the shuttle toward death
just as my mind moves over
for its own little death.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Hog.")

For laughter frames the lips of death—
Death frames the Singer and the Song.
(Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Non Omnis Moriar.")

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