What is another word for dance of death?

Pronunciation: [dˈans ɒv dˈɛθ] (IPA)

The phrase "dance of death" has been used for centuries to describe artistic and literary depictions of a macabre scene in which death personified leads the living in a haunting dance. While the phrase itself is unique and specific, there are several synonyms that can be used to convey a similar idea. For instance, "danse macabre" is a French term used to describe the same concept of a deathly dance. Other synonyms include "death waltz," "dance of the dead," and "grinning skeleton dance." All of these phrases share a sense of eerie and macabre movement that reflects the inescapable reality of death.

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Famous quotes with Dance of death

  • I sometimes think that we are like Stars in the Galaxy, the Time-travellers, millions and trillions of them are being born and being deceased every moment, as I write this note. Those who are being born right now cannot be seen by us, until the light from them should reach to us after many centuries or milleniums to come. The Stars twinkle, brighten our world, and many a times they burst into Supernova to illuminate the whole of universe. Just like Stars, we too like to leave our marks, with our divine sparks of intelligence that transform into our creations, writings, paintings, poetry, and inventions etc, something that we always struggle to salvage from the inebitable great dance of death. And each Star thus becomes the mirror that reflects that divine light within us, the humans and all the life on Earth alike.
    Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
  • O my child, who wronged you first, and began First the dance of death that you dance so well? Soul for soul: and I think the soul of a man Shall answer for yours in hell.
    Arthur Symons
  • When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.
    Hermann Hesse

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