101 quotes
Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (1658)
Burden not the back of Aries, Leo, or Taurus, with thy faults, nor make Saturn, Mars, or Venus, guilty of thy Follies.
Christian Morals (1716)
The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves.
Christian Morals (1716)
The thousand doors that lead to death.
Religio Medici (1642)
That some have never dreamed is as improbable as that some have never laughed.
Women do most delight in revenge.
Rich with the spoils of Nature.
Religio Medici (1643)
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent myself.
Religio Medici (1643)
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.
The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
Sleep is a death, O make me try,
By sleeping, what it is to die:
And as gently lay my head
On my grave, as now my bed.
Religio Medici (1642)
Happy are they that go to bed with grave music like Pythagoras.
A little water makes a sea, a small puff of wind a Tempest.
Art is the perfection of nature.
Religio Medici (1643)
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.
Letter to a Friend (1656)
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
We vainly accuse the fury of guns, and the new inventions of death; it is in the power of every hand to destroy us, and we are beholden unto every one we meet he doth not kill us.
Religio Medici (1643)
The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the Æquinox? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetick, which scarce stands one moment.
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others
Religio Medici (1643)