Edward Young Death Quotations

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.