Carl Auer Von Welsbach - Death

Famous quotes containing the word death:

“Two graves must hide thine and my corse;
If one might, death were no divorce.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)

“It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Sébastien-roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 155 (1796, trans. 1926)

“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone—”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)