Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Doors, People

• To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Mean, Dying

  "Ideals and Doubts", 10 Illinois Law Rev 3, 1915.

• There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Death, Sleep

• Our dead brothers and sisters still live for us and bid us think of life, not death-of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Brother, Spring

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