Edward Young Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

  Edward Young

  Death, Fire, Dying

  "The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality".

• All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

  Edward Young

  Death, Men, Thinking

• Virtue alone has majesty in death.

  Edward Young

  Death, Dying, Majesty

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.35

• The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

  Edward Young

  Death, Peace, Nature

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.19

• Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

  Edward Young

  Death, Tyrants, Portraits

• An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

  Edward Young

  Death, Fear, Angel

  Edward Young (1760). “The complaint: or, Night-thoughts on life, death, and immortality. By E. Young”, p.4

• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

  Life, Sympathy, Death

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

• Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

  Edward Young

  Death, Stars, Empires

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.13

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