Death
Pierce died in Union City, Tennessee on July 12, 1936 (age 88 years, 9 days). He was interred in the City Cemetery.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“For in the word death
There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;
Nothing to adapt the skill of the heart to, skill
In surviving, for death it cannot survive,
Only resign the irrecoverable keys.
The wave falters and drowns. The coulter of joy
Breaks. The harrow of death
Depends. And there are thrown up waves.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)