death

The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

Matthew 4:16, KJV

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

Matthew 16:28, KJV

What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

Romans 6:21, KJV

How You have loved us, good Father, who spared not Your only Son, but delivered Him up for us ungodly sinners! How You have loved us, for whom He that thought it no robbery to be equal with You, was made subject even to the death of the cross, He alone, free among the dead, having power to lay down His life, and power to take it again: for us to You both Victor and Victim, and therefore Victor, because the Victim; for us to You Priest and Sacrifice, and therefore Priest because the Sacrifice; making us to You, of servants, sons by being born of You, and serving us.

Augustine, Confessions

Let me not be mine own life; from myself I lived ill, death was I to myself; and I revive in You.

Augustine, Confessions

that they would gladly have died for each other or together, not to live together being to them worse than death.

Augustine, Confessions

Whence You hast like a skin stretched out the firmament of Your book, that is, Your harmonizing words, which by the ministry of mortal men You spread over us. For by their very death was that solid firmament of authority, in Your discourses set forth by them, more eminently extended over all that be under it; which while they lived here, was not so eminently extended. You hadst not as yet spread abroad the heaven like a skin; You hadst not as yet enlarged in all directions the glory of their deaths.

Augustine, Confessions

You have freed it from that fast-holding birdlime of death. How wretched was it! and You did irritate the feeling of its wound, that forsaking all else, it might be converted unto You, who are above all, and without whom all things would be nothing; be converted, and be healed.

Augustine, Confessions

Your saints, whose death is precious in Your sight.

Augustine, Confessions

For first 'tis evident that all human things, like Alcibiades' Sileni or rural gods, carry a double face, but not the least alike; so that what at first sight seems to be death, if you view it narrowly may prove to be life; and so the contrary.

Erasmus, In Praise of Folly

And O reason, to gain eternal life tread everlastingly the way of death!

Rumi

Since yesterday has gone and tomorrow has not come, take account of this one moment that now is. In this garden of the world there is not a cypress that has grown which the wind of death has not uprooted.

Saadi, Bustan

"I have heard that God, glorious and great, has removed from this world a certain man who was your enemy." He said, "Have you had any intelligence that he has overlooked me? In the death of a rival I have no room for exultation, since my life also is not to last forever."

Saadi, Gulistan

O you that are going in quest of food, sit down, that you may have to eat. And, O you that death is in quest of, go not on, for you cannot carry life along with you!

Saadi, Gulistan

The fisherman, unless it be his lot, catches no fish in the Tigris; and the fish, unless it be its fate, does not die on the dry land: - The wretched miser is prowling all over the world, he in quest of pelf, and death in quest of him.

Saadi, Gulistan

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still? If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world It is not worth leave-taking.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, Scene 2

O, I could prophesy, But that the earthy and cold hand of death Lies on my tongue.

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4

And so, with great imagination Proper to madmen, led his powers to death And, winking, leapt into destruction

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Act 1, Scene 3

For he hath found to end one doubt by death Revives two greater in the heirs of life

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2, Act 4, Scene 1

If she live long, And in the end meet the old course of death, Women will all turn monsters.

Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 3, Scene 7

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 1

Yet in this life Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 1

then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.

Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 3

For death remember'd should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

Shakespeare, Pericles, Act 1, Scene 1

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear and be slain; no worse can come to fight: And fight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

Shakespeare, Richard II, Act 3, Scene 2

Let thy blood be thy direction till death

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 3

Those that with cords, knives, drams, precipi-tance, Weary of this world's light, have to themselves Been death's most horrid agents, humane grace Affords them dust and shadow.

Shakespeare, Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 1, Scene 1

The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed, And fear doth teach it divination: I prophesy thy death, my living sorrow, If thou encounter with the boar to-morrow.

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

This carry-tale, dissentious Jealousy, That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring, Knocks at my heat and whispers in mine ear That if I love thee, I thy death should fear:

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

And so, in spite of death, thou dost survive, In that thy likeness still is left alive.

Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis <3

Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 107 <3

Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; Within be fed, without be rich no more. So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men, And death once dead, there's no more dying then.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 146

My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please. and I desp'rate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 147

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 18

A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both, And to his robb'ry had annexed thy breath; But for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker ate him up to death.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 99