"Where, O death, thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:55, (Saint) Paul of Tarsus
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." Shakespeare,Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1
"To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?" John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!" Sir Walter Raleigh, A Historie of the World
"Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean -- roll!" Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so", John Donne, "Holy Sonnet X"
"And you, Eumaeus..." the Odyssey
"O My friends, there is no friend." Montaigne, originally attributed to Aristotle[3]
"Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!", from Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
"O black night, nurse of the golden eyes!" Electra in Euripides' Electra(c. 410 BCE, line 54), in the translation by David Kovacs (1998).
"Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief." [(Queen Isabela in Edward II by Christopher Malowe)]
"O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 169-170).
