Quotes from Thomas Browne

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.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.