Abraham Cowley Quotes

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

Little soul, gentle and drifting, guest and companion of my body, now you will dwell below in pallid places, stark and bare; there you will abandon your play of yore. But one moment still, let us gaze together on these familiar shores, on these objects which doubtless we shall not see again....Let us try, if we can, to enter into death with open eyes.

Remember that life is short and death is long.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

I think that any authentic feeling one has of life should be a feeling of defeat. It's a losing game. You're going to die. Civilization is going to end. Our society is in decline, and we should feel OK about it because Roman society was in decline and before it the Assyrian one was, and they disappeared off this earth and we will disappear too.

who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.

We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.