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Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death. — Herman Melville

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty! — William Shakespeare

For nothing is deader than a body that once had life and has it no more. — Chris Priestley

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle. — Annie Dillard

There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose. — Cate Tiernan

For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility. — Jacob K. Javits

Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from
Thoughtful children, and the grave
Proves the child ephemeral — W. H. Auden

It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death. — Misty Upham

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. — Terry Tempest Williams

Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. — Sam Llewellyn

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir. — William Shakespeare

Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life. — Jessica Khoury

I never again looked at the sky and saw only vastness and beauty. From that afternoon on I saw that death was also and always there. — Kay Redfield Jamison

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses — F Scott Fitzgerald

Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror. — Donna Tartt

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls. — Alfred Noyes

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept. — Simon Van Booy

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires. — Wallace Stevens

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams. — Khalil Gibran

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life. — Bryant McGill

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too. — Gayle Forman

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty. — Rufus Wainwright

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. — Markus Zusak

Beauty was the ultimate arsenal. Beauty was meant to deceive. It was meant to trick and beguile so their prey never saw death coming. — Pepper Winters

For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold ... there is a peace about death that soothes me. — John Christie

If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season. — Shana Chartier

Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way. — Kate Morton

In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life. — Maurice Sceve

Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels. — Charlie Chaplin

I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell. — Siegfried Sassoon

Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies. — Willa Cather

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
Roses do blush and hang their heads — Henry Noel Brailsford

Even nature; the restless waves, irregular trees and stars all out of line show that chaos can be beautiful! — Sophia McMaster

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death. — Robert Jordan

The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

And we who delve in beauty's lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

Such beauty that for a minute
death and ambition, even love,
doesn't enter into this. — Raymond Carver

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between. — Albert Camus