Alexander Smith Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Men, Race

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.58

• Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Nature, Ugly

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.51

• Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Life Death, Commonplace

  "Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country".

• If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Sorry, House

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55

• To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

  Alexander Smith

  Death, Men, Proud

  Dreamthorp Ch. II (1863)

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