Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.145

• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Medicine, Physicians

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

• Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Sovereign, Warp

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.429

• Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Two, Sound

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.371

• The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Hands, Body

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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