Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Eye, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.237

• Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Children, Philosophy

• Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Funeral, Heaven

  'Epitaph on an Infant' (1794)

• Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Nature, Swans

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The ancient mariner. Christabel. Miscellaneous poems. Remorse. Zapolya”, p.148

• Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Men, Blood

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 190 (1798)

• Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Oil, Lamps

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.357

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