George Eliot Quotes

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Death is the end of every worldly pain.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

The first thing I would like to tell you about death is that there is no bigger lie than death. And yet, death appears to be true. It not only appears to be true but also seems like the cardinal truth of life - it appears as if the whole of life is surrounded by death. Whether we forget about it, or become oblivious to it, everywhere death remains close to us. Death is even closer to us than our own shadow.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

Death is one dream out of another flowing.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Death may whiten in sun or out of it.

Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

Death means you are in the third person.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.