“There is no place for death.”

—  Virgil , Georgics

Book IV, line 226
Georgics (29 BC)

Original

Nec morti esse locum.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "There is no place for death." by Virgil?
Virgil photo
Virgil 138
Ancient Roman poet -70–-19 BC

Related quotes

John Ogilby photo

“Nor is there place for Death.”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks

Conrad Aiken photo

“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)

Leo Tolstoy photo

“He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death.

In place of death there was light.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

Robert E. Howard photo

“It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

"The God in the Bowl" (1952)
Context: Arus the watchman grasped his crossbow with shaky hands, and he felt beads of clammy perspiration on his skin as he stared at the unlovely corpse sprawling on the polished floor before him. It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

Mahmud of Ghazni photo

“Islam or death was the alternative he placed before people.”

Mahmud of Ghazni (971–1030) Sultan of Ghazni

Quotes from Tarikh Yamini (Kitabu-l Yamini) by Al Utbi
Source: in SR Sharma, Studies in Medieval Indian history quoted in Misra, R. G. (2005). Indian resistance to early Muslim invaders up to 1206 A.D. p.113

Michael Shea photo

“And most important, nothing was to be taken for granted in that place. In Death’s world, any covenant, no matter how mighty, can fall null—any spell, however cogent, can be abrogated. The only certain law in that place is Death itself.”

Michael Shea book Nifft the Lean

Part 1, Chapter 6 (p. 49)
Nifft the Lean (1982)

Ataol Behramoğlu photo

“In the most affirming places of their love
Suddenly they grew tired, out of breath
Little by little they felt the death
Of some places left in darkness”

Ataol Behramoğlu (1942) Turkish writer

"Black Song"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman photo

“When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer
Orson Scott Card photo

“The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

Jacques Derrida photo

“It has no sense and cannot just unless it comes to terms with death. Mine as (well as) that of the other. Between life and death, then, this is indeed the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to speak the just.”

Jacques Derrida book Specters of Marx

Exordium
Specters of Marx (1993)

Related topics