Death's Jest Book Quotes

“The look of the world’s a lie, a face made up

O’er graves and fiery depths, and nothing’s true

But what is horrible. If man could see

The perils and diseases that he elbows

Each day he walks a mile, which catch at him,

Which fall behind and graze him as he passes,

Then would he know that life’s a single pilgrim

Fighting unarmed among a thousand soldiers”
― Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest Book

“O fie on't I Thou my brother ? Say when hast thou undergone transfusion, and whose hostile blood now turns thy life's wheels ?”
― Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest Book