Thomas Browne - Death Quotes

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But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

Thomas Browne
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

Thomas Browne
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

Thomas Browne
Sleep is a death; oh, make me try
By sleeping what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave as now my bed.

Thomas Browne
We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits which are the house of life.

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Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

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I boast nothing, but plainely say, we all labour against our owne cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Thomas Browne
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

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Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death extract a third part of our lives.

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.

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I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof; 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us that our nearest friends, Wife, and Children stand afraid and start at us.

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He forgets that he can die who complains of misery, we are in the power of no calamity, while death is in our own.

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To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

Thomas Browne
Sleep is a death, O make me try
By sleeping, what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.

Thomas Browne