A Very Woman (1619), Act v. Sc. 4. Compare: "Death hath so many doors to let out life", Beaumont and Fletcher, The Custom of the Country, act ii. sc. 2; "The thousand doors that lead to death", Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, part i, sect. xliv.
“Death hath so many doors to let out life.”
The Custom of the Country (with Philip Massinger; c. 1619–23; published 1647), Act II, scene 2
Compare: "I know death hath ten thousand several doors / For men to take their exits.", John Webster, Dutchess of Malfi (1623); act IV, scene ii
“I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits.”
Act IV, scene ii. Compare: "Death hath so many doors to let out life", John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country, act ii, scene 2.
Duchess of Malfi (1623)
Meditations. iv. 17.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Down Among the Women (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1971] 1973) p. 172.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 153
“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”
Variant: O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Source: Romeo and Juliet
Section 2 (p. 46)
Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
“O thou child of many prayers!
Life hath quicksands; life hath snares!”
Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 9 (1842).
