Alexander Pope Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Death, Fancy

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). “An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.101

• And die of nothing but a rage to live.

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Pain, Rage

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91

• Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Death, Losing Friends

  Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335

• The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Men, Suffering

  Homerus, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Odyssey”, p.126

• Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Youth, Dies

  Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.12

• Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
  O grave! where is thy victory?
  O death! where is thy sting?

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Wings, Victory

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.152

• Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Death, Fall

  Alexander Pope, “Windsor Forest”

• In death a hero, as in life a friend!

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Hero, Funeral

  Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.321

• Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

  Alexander Pope

  Death, Philosophy, Men

  "The Iliad of Homer".

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