“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 17.
Edward Young: Quotes about death
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“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 292.
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 717.
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 104.
“Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 1011.
“Man makes a death which Nature never made.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 15.
“And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 51.
“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”
The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 627.
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 650.
“A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 641.