Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Knowledge by suffering entereth,
  And life is perfected by death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Death, Knowledge

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.231

• For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Men, Dying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.358

• The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Happiness, Death, Greek

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1033, Delphi Classics

• O Earth, so full of dreary noises!
  O men, with wailing in your voices!
  O delved gold, the wader's heap!
  O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
  God makes a silence through you all,
  And "giveth His beloved, sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Fall, Sleep

• When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Horse, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.867, Delphi Classics

• Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But,
  there,
  The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Death, Answers

  'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1850) no. 1

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