Alexander Pope Quotes About Death

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  • Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

    Letter to Jonathan Swift, 5 December 1732, in George Sherburn (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Alexander Pope' (1956) vol. 3, p. 335
  • And die of nothing but a rage to live.

    Death  
    Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The poems of Alexander Pope”, p.91
  • The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

    Death   Men  
    Homerus, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Odyssey”, p.126
  • In death a hero, as in life a friend!

    Death  
    Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.321
  • What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

    Death  
    Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1786). “An essay on man ... Enlarged and improved by the author ... With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.101
  • Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best.

    Death  
    Homer, Alexander Pope, Gilbert Wakefield (1796). “The Iliad of Homer: Translated by Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. ...”, p.12
  • Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

    Death  
    Alexander Pope, “Windsor Forest”
  • Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

    Death   Philosophy   Men  
    "The Iliad of Homer".
  • Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

    Death  
    Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.152
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