Blog of author, 9 IX 2007 AD http://korwin-mikke.blog.onet.pl/Naturalna-smierc,2,ID258154142,n
“Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"”
Last speech to the National Convention http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/24.html (26 July 1794)
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French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758–1794Related quotes
                                        
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Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Death is not "an eternal sleep!"”
                                        
                                        Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!" 
Source:  Last speech to the National Convention http://www.bartleby.com/268/7/24.html (26 July 1794)
                                    
“From birth to death, love is the motto of every living being.”
                                
                                    “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
                                        
                                        No. 10, line 13 
Holy Sonnets (1633)
                                    
“Take me away from all this Death.”