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| He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. Anonymous Quotes |
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| Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. Italian Proverb Quotes |
| Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. Yogi Berra Quotes |
| It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Epicurus Quotes |
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| One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. Josef Stalin Quotes |
| Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Joe Lewis Quotes |
| Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. Wil Shriner Quotes |
| It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen Quotes |
| How could they tell? Dorothy Parker Quotes |
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| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. Anonymous Quotes |
| I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. Woody Allen Quotes |
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| In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death! Patrick Henry Quotes |
| It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Emiliano Zapata Quotes |
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| What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. A Sachs Quotes |
| As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. Aeschylus Quotes |
| I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht Quotes |
| Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. Epicurus Quotes |
| If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. Samuel Goldwyn Quotes |
| There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? Woody Allen Quotes |
| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. Horace Quotes |
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| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. Johnny Carson Quotes |
| I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| Only cowards insult dying majesty. Aesop Quotes |
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| Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Erik H Erikson Quotes |
| I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead. Woody Allen Quotes |
| Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz Quotes |
| On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. Woody Allen Quotes |
| No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides Quotes |
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| Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yielded results effective for the present time and into eternity. Roger Anderson Quotes |
| He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giovanni Falcone Quotes |
| Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller Quotes |
| Death ends a life, not a relationship. Jack Lemmon Quotes |
| The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. Dave Barry Quotes |
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| We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. David Sarnoff Quotes |
| Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. Tennessee Williams Quotes |
| Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. Sonny Bono Quotes |
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| If we don't know life, how can we know death? Confucius Quotes |
| Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks Quotes |
| Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. Sir Thomas Browne Quotes |
| With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Sam Levenson Quotes |
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| My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying. Ed Furgol Quotes |
| "He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead." Anonymous Quotes |
| Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. Scottish Proverb Quotes |
If it all be for naught, for nothingness at last,
Why does God make the world so fair?
Why spill this golden splendor out across the western hills,
And light the silver lamp of eve?
Why give me eyes to see, and soul to love so strong and deep?
Then, with a pang this brightness stabs me through,
And wakes within rebellious voice to cry against all death?
Why set this hunger for eternity to gnaw my heartstrings through,
If death ends all?
If death ends all, then evil must be good,
Wrong must be right, and beauty ugliness.
God is Judas who betrays His Son,
And with a kiss, damns all the world to Hell, --
If Christ rose not again. Anonymous Quotes |
| [written by Unknown soldier, killed in World War I] Anonymous Quotes |
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| "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box." Italian Proverb Quotes |
I think of you often
and make no outward show,
But what it means to lose you,
no one will ever know
You wished no one farewell,
not even said good-bye,
You were gone before I knew it,
and only God knows why.
You are not forgotten
nor will you ever be,
As long as life and memories last,
I will remember thee.
To some you may be forgotten,
to others a part of the past,
But to me who loved you dearly,
your memories will always last.
Nothing can be more beautiful
than the memories I have of you.
To me, you were someone special,
God must have thought so too!
If tears could build a staircase
and memories a lane,
I would walk all the way to Heaven,
and bring you back again. Anonymous Quotes |
| "Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning." Mitch Albom Quotes |
| "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage." Jean Anouilh Quotes |
| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
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| There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon Quotes |
| The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes |
| Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. Jean Baudrillard Quotes |
| "He would have liked his own funeral if he could have seen it. It was small and quiet, and really not at all pompous, as Michael had feared it might be. 'The dead,' he had said once, 'need nothing from the living, and the living can give nothing to the dead.' At 22, it had sounded precocious; at 34, it sounded mature, and this pleased Michael very much. Essentially a romantic, he had put away the trappings of romance, although he had loved them deeply and never known." Peter S. Beagle Quotes |
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| A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds. John Berger Quotes |
"The end of birth is death; the end of death
Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,
Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls
Which could not otherwise befall?" Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
"If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds." Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
"And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead." Bible Quotes |
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain. Laurence Robert Binyon Quotes |
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| written as a reaction to the high casualty rates of the British Expeditionary Force at Mons and Le Cateau Laurence Robert Binyon Quotes |
| Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Robert Bolt Quotes |
| Death is an unsurpassable limit of human existence...[We discover the relationship which] is the basis for all feelings of reverance, fear, awe, wonder, sorrow, and deference in the face of something greater and more powerful...Only such a being-unto-death can guarantee the precondition that the Dasein be able to free itself from its absorption in, its submission and surrender of itself to the things and relationships of everyday living and to return to itself. Medard Boss Quotes |
| In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?” Alain de Botton Quotes |
It's like those eerie stories nurses tell,
Of how some actor on a stage played Death,
With pasteboard crown, sham orb and tinselled dart,
And called himself the monarch of the world;
Then, going in the tire-room afterward,
Because the play was done, to shift himself,
Got touched upon the sleeve familiarly,
The moment he had shut the closet door,
By Death himself. Thus God might touch a Pope
At unawares, ask what his baubles mean,
And whose part he presumed to play just now.
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true! Robert Browning Quotes |
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So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. William Cullen Bryant Quotes |
Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
Shall journey onward in perpetual peace. William Cullen Bryant Quotes |
| Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being. Pearl Buck Quotes |
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?"
The second was, "Did you find joy?" Leo Buscaglia Quotes |
"For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,
And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;
And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!" Lord (George Gordon) Byron Quotes |
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Why will we struggle to attain, and strive,
When all we gain is but an empty dream?--
Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem
To end it all and let who will survive;
To find at last all beauty is but dust;
That love and sorrow are the very same;
That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;
And sense is but the synonym of lust.
Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;
To set glad lips against the lips of Death--
The only thing God gives that comforteth,
The only thing we do not find a lie. Madison Cawein Quotes |
| I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. Agatha Christie Quotes |
| I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be. I was within a hair's-breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say. Joseph Conrad Quotes |
| Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living? Norman Cousins Quotes |
| The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation... Alphonse Daudet Quotes |
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"Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality." Emily Dickinson Quotes |
"Far or forgot to me is near;
Shadow and sunlight are the same;
The vanished gods to me appear;
And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." Epicurus Quotes |
| Death, the most dreaded of all evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. Epicurus Quotes |
A lion is much more dreadful to him that never saw him, than he is to his keeper who feedeth him every day. A pitched battle is more frightful and scaring to a new-listed soldier, that never took his place in the field before, nor saw the dreadful countenance of an army ready to engage, nor heard the thundering noise of cannon, and volleys of shot, the shouts of armies, and groans of dying men on every side, than it is to an old soldier who has been used to such things. The like we may observe in seamen, who it may be trembled at first, and now can sing in a storm.
Scarce any thing is more necessary for weak and timorous believers to meditate on, than the time of their separation. Our hearts will be apt to start and boggle at the first view of death; but it is good to do by them as men use to do by young colts; ride them up to that which they fright at, and make them smell to it, which is the way to cure them. "Look, as bread, says one, is more necessary than other food, so the meditation of death is more necessary than many other meditations." Every time we change our habitations, we should realise therein our great change: our souls must shortly leave this, and be lodged for a longer season in another mansion. When we put off our clothes at night, we have a fit occasion to consider, that we must strip nearer one of these days, and put off, not our clothes only, but the body that wears them too. John Flavel Quotes |
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I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? A new member added to their happy society? We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us, while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God -- when they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain rather than pleasure -- instead of an aid, become an incumbrance and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves prudently choose a partial death. In some cases a mangled painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off -- He who plucks out a tooth, parts with it freely since the pain goes with it, and he that quits the whole body, parts at once with all pains and possibilities of pains and diseases it was liable to, or capable of making him suffer.
Our friend and we are invited abroad on a party of pleasure -- that is to last forever -- His chair was first ready and he is gone before us -- we could not all conveniently start together, and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and we know where to find him. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people." Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| "Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born." Gary Mark Gilmore Quotes |
Tomorrow we shall meet,
Death and I -.
And he shall thrust his sword
Into one who is wide awake. Dag Hammarskjold Quotes |
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now! Thomas F. Healey Quotes |
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Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising Sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a Spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay
As you, or any thing. Robert Herrick Quotes |
Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away into the next room,
I am I and you are you;
Whatever we were to each other, That we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used,
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we shared together.
Let my name ever be the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant,
It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the
corner.
All is well. Henry Scott Holland Quotes |
| One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all. Horace Quotes |
| [Latin: Omnes una manet nox Et calcanda semel via leti] Horace Quotes |
| Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing? Victor Hugo Quotes |
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| "Doctor, as I believe you would not choose to tell any thing but the truth, you had better tell him, that I am dying as fast as my enemies, if I have any, could wish, and as easily and cheerfully as my best friends could desire." David Hume Quotes |
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And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan
And solve the mystery?
The high, the low, the rich, the poor,
The black, the white, the red,
And all the chromatique between,
Of whom shall it be said:
Here are the sons of Africa;
Here lies the dust of Rome;
Here lies the one unlabeled,
The world at large his home!
Can one then separate the dust?
Will mankind lie apart,
When life has settled back again
The same as from the start? Georgia Douglas Johnson Quotes |
"When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And feel that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;- then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink." John Keats Quotes |
| "I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave - thank God for the quiet grave – O! I can feel the cold earth upon me – the daisies growing over me – O for this quiet – it will be my first." John Keats Quotes |
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| If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
| Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes |
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods. Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes |
"Were a star quenched on high,
For ages would its light,
Still travelling downward from the sky,
Shine on our mortal sight.
"When a good man dies,
For years beyond his ken,
The light he leaves behind him shines
Along the path of men." Alexander Russell Main Quotes |
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| Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. Thomas Merton Quotes |
| Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth. Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes |
"Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." John Milton Quotes |
| And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion. Vladimir Nabokov Quotes |
"Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
I am sick, I must die;
Lord have mercy on us." Thomas Nash Quotes |
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| That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. Dorothy Parker Quotes |
I never see the prettiest thing -
A cherry bough gone white with Spring -
But what I think, "How gay 'twould be
To hang me from a flowering tree." Dorothy Parker Quotes |
Life’s race well run,
Life’s work well done,
Life’s victory won,
Now cometh rest. Edward Hazen Parker, M.D. Quotes |
| "The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever." Blaise Pascal Quotes |
| If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good Fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. Charles Sanders Pierce Quotes |
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| "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike Quotes |
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important. Sylvia Plath Quotes |
| "...After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. You know, the Stone was not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life and you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all -- the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them." J.K.Rowling Quotes |
| [spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore] J.K.Rowling Quotes |
I spent millons of years in the world
of inorganic things
as a star, as a rock...
Then I died and became a plant--
Forgetting my former existence
because of its otherness
Then I died and became an animal--
Forgetting my life as a plant
except for inclinations in the season
of spring and sweet herbs--
like the inclination of babes
toward their mother's breast
Then I died and became a human
My intelligence ripened, awakening
from greed and self-seeking
to become wise and knowing
I behold a hundred thousand
intelligences most marvelous
and remember my former states
and inclinations
And when I die again
I will soar past the angels
to places I cannot imagine
Now, what have I ever lost by dying? Rumi Quotes |
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| When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. Antoine De Saint-Exupery Quotes |
Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
… there remains naught save a modicum of senseless dust
Such is the end of man−−the only spoil
We carry with us from life's battle−field,
Is but an insight into nothingness,
And utter scorn of all which once appeared
To us exalted and desirable. Friedrich von Schiller Quotes |
"Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,
Resplendent daughter of the head divine,
Wise foundress of the system of the world,
Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,
Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,
Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,
Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss." Friedrich von Schiller Quotes |
| There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being. Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes |
| "But the man who dares to live his life with death before his eyes, the man who receives life back bit by bit and lives as though it did not belong to him by right but has been bestowed on him as a gift, the man who has such freedom and peace of mind that he has overcome death in his thoughts--such a man believes in eternal life because it is already his, it is a present experience, and he already benefits from its peace and joy. He cannot describe this experience in words. He may not be able to conform his view with the traditional picture of it. But one thing he knows for certain: Something within us does not pass away, something goes on living and working wherever the kingdom of the spirit is present. It is already working and living within us, because in our hearts we have been able to reach life by overcoming death." Albert Schweitzer Quotes |
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All are equal
Death lays his icy hand on kings:
Sceptre and crown
Must tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade. James Shirley Quotes |
| You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. Frank Sinatra Quotes |
| I'm gonna live till I die. Frank Sinatra Quotes |
| To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? Socrates Quotes |
| The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily. Socrates Quotes |
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| "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." Josef Stalin Quotes |
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires. Wallace Stevens Quotes |
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
and the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
| "But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies." Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
Death is the end of life; ah why
Should life all labour be? . . .
All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave
In silence - ripen, fall, and cease;
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease. Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes |
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas Quotes |
| He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. Leo Tolstoy Quotes |
| "The report of my death was an exaggeration." Mark Twain Quotes |
"I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says, 'There she goes!'
Gone where? Gone from my sight ... that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says, 'There she goes!' there are other eyes watching her coming and their voices ready to take up the glad shouts 'Here she comes!' Henry Van Dyke Quotes |
| Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully. Andy Webster Quotes |
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What do you think has become of the young and old men?
What do you think has become of the women and
children?
They are alive and well somewhere;
The smallest sprouts show there is really no death,
And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait
at the end to arrest it,
And ceased the moment life appeared.
All goes onward and outward. . . .and nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and
luckier. Walt Whitman Quotes |
This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,
Was saved the Union of these States. Walt Whitman Quotes |
| "Men die, but sorrow never dies; The crowding years divide in vain, And the wide world is knit with ties of common brotherhood in pain." Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Quotes |
| "A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists." Marguerite Yourcenar Quotes |
| Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. Denis Leary Quotes |
| Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. Elbert Hubbard Quotes |
| I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Quotes |
| I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me. R. Geis Quotes |
Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again.
George Eliot Quotes |
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| Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. J.J. Furnas Quotes |
| The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. Doris Day Quotes |
| I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. Thomas Browne Quotes |
| A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. Stewart Alsop Quotes |
| There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. Harvey Cushing Quotes |
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God made death so we'd know when to stop. Steven Stiles Quotes |
| Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. Chuck Palahniuk Quotes |
| As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Quotes |
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Paradise -
I see flowers
from the cottage where I lie.
Yaitsu's death poem, 1807 Quotes |
| For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn Quotes |
| Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax. Philip Dow Quotes |
| Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure. Mortimer Collins Quotes |
| To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. C.G. Jung Quotes |
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Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night's dream.
Ryokan Quotes |
| Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life. Henry David Thoreau, 11 March 1842, lett Quotes |
Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto death.
Witter Bynner, "The Patient to the D Quotes |
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep
Without identity.
Emily Bronte Quotes |
| The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Charles de Gaulle Quotes |
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| And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. Homer Quotes |
| When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever.... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. H.L. Mencken Quotes |
He first deceas'd; She for a little tri'd
To live without him: lik'd it not, and di'd.
Henry Worton Quotes |
| The goal of all life is death. Sigmund Freud Quotes |
| Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. Marcus Aurelius Quotes |
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For death,
Now I know, is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life, which is of all life center.
Edwin Arnold Quotes |
| God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality. Jacques Rigaut Quotes |
| Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. The Epic of Gilgamesh Quotes |
My soul is full of whispered song;
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are all alive with light.
Alice Cary Quotes |
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After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J.K. Rowling Quotes |
| Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets. Wilfred Sheed Quotes |
| Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." Bill Maher Quotes |
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Death is the surest calculation that can be made. Ludwig Büchner Quotes |
| Life and death are balanced on The Edge of a razor. Homer Quotes |
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For what is it to die,
But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
Kahlil Gibran, from "The Prophet" Quotes |
| No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. Plato Quotes |
| I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. Wilson Mizner Quotes |
| Our birth is nothing but our death begun. Edward Young Quotes |
| Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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| I knew a man who once said, "death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back." From the movie Quotes |
| To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
| People living deeply have no fear of death. Anaiïs Nin Quotes |
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes |
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes |
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| The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| Death is a debt we all must pay. Euripides Quotes |
| Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins Quotes |
| There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it. Aeschylus Quotes |
| From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch Quotes |
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| We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. Madame de Stael Quotes |
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo Quotes |
Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole
Of life that quickens in the sod.
Charles Hanson Towne Quotes |
| Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. Attributed to George Carlin Quotes |
| Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Erik H. Erikson Quotes |
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| Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. Herodotus Quotes |
| We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. Marcel Proust Quotes |
| Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine Quotes |
| Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. Socrates Quotes |
In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight....
Not people die but worlds die in them.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "People" Quotes |
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| Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. Albert Einstein Quotes |
Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away.
Horace Quotes |
| The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Seneca Quotes |
| Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Quotes |
| God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath. John Donne Quotes |
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| If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good Fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes |
| There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. Kenneth Patchen Quotes |
| A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. Thomas Mann Quotes |
| I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather Quotes |
| Death is a distant rumor to the young. Andrew A. Rooney Quotes |
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| Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker Quotes |
| While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes |
| 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. Lord Byron Quotes |
| Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. J.D. Salinger Quotes |
| The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu Quotes |
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| A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Percival Arland Ussher Quotes |
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
Emily Dickinson Quotes |
| People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. Marcel Proust Quotes |
| He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giovanni Falcone Quotes |
| Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. Henry Van Dyke Quotes |
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| If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. From the television show Quotes |
| Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon Quotes |
| The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain Quotes |
| To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. Samuel Butler Quotes |
Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,
And spent my little life without a thought,
And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,
Should think of me, who never thought of him.
René Francois Regnier Quotes |
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| All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes |
| All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. Mark Twain Quotes |
| I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. Jean Giraudoux Quotes |
| There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. Toni Morrison Quotes |
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| Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham Quotes |
| ...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes |
| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum Quotes |
| In the world to come, I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked, "Why were you not Zusya?" Rabbi Zusya Quotes |
| Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die. Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes |
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| Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.in Little Women, chapter 36 Louisa May Alcott Quotes |
| Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir Quotes |
| If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov Quotes |
| Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death James F. Bymes Quotes |
| I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. Gilda Radner Quotes |
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| Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. F. Forrester Church Quotes |
| [W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation. Ernest Becker Quotes |
| The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man. Ernest Becker Quotes |
| The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive. Ernest Becker Quotes |
| Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist. Epicurus Quotes |
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| Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or "broken heart," is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. (Suicide Note, August 17, 1935) Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes |
| Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! ... Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes |
| It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes |
| People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin Quotes |
| Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. Amelia Burr Quotes |
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| I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
| The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. Richard Adams Quotes |
| If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. William Adams Quotes |
| The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country! Joseph Addison Quotes |
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| The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. Felix Adler Quotes |
| The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Morris Adler Quotes |
| Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. Anouk Aimée Quotes |
| No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train. Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes |
| When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. Brian Aldiss Quotes |
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| Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. Conte Vittorio Alfieri Quotes |
| Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. Woody Allen Quotes |
| It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. Woody Allen Quotes |
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen Quotes |
| It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen Quotes |
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| A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist. Steward Alsop Quotes |
| Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yielded results effective for the present time and into eternity. Roger Anderson Quotes |
| Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Maya Angelou Quotes |
| I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy Sting?' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.' Maya Angelou Quotes |
| To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying. Jean Anouilh Quotes |
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| Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. Jean Anouilh Quotes |
| Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream. John A. Appleman Quotes |
| It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. Janos Arany Quotes |
| All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. Dr. Arbthnot Quotes |
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| What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle Quotes |
| The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle Quotes |
| It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.' Thomas Arnold Quotes |
| O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Saint Francis of Assisi Quotes |
| O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen. Saint Augustine Quotes |
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| It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men … their wars, their concentration camps, their justice. Marcel Ayme Quotes |
| It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now. Joan Baez Quotes |
| You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You only get to chose how you're going to live. Joan Baez Quotes |
| The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter Bagehot Quotes |
| A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Pearl Bailey Quotes |
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| No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. Alben William Barkley Quotes |
| The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. Alvin Barkley Quotes |
| True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away. Alicia Barnhart Quotes |
| To die will be an awfully big adventure. Sir James Matthew Barrie Quotes |
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| What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry Quotes |
| What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Barton Quotes |
| The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. Jean Baudrillard Quotes |
| When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred. Sun Bear Quotes |
| Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm Quotes |
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| I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Francis Behan Quotes |
| Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. Betty Bender Quotes |
| Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. Stephen Vincent Benét Quotes |
| Life without a friend is death without a witness. Eugene Benge Quotes |
| Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. Warren G. Bennis Quotes |
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| We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were. John Berger Quotes |
| Faith without works is dead. Bible Quotes |
| If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Job 14:14 Bible: Hebrew Quotes |
| History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes |
| When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? Jim Quotes |
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| Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. Jim Quotes |
| Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky Quotes |
| I prefer my oysters fried; That way I know my oysters died. Roy G. Blount, Jr. Quotes |
| The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. George Dana Boardman Quotes |
| Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. Robert Oxton Bolt Quotes |
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| No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness. Robert Oxton Bolt Quotes |
| If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead. Erma Louise Bombeck Quotes |
| It requires more courage to suffer than to die. Napolean Bonaparte Quotes |
| Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. Sonny Bono Quotes |
| To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely. Jorge Luis Borges Quotes |
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| The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. Joan Borysenko Quotes |
| The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon Quotes |
| That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want. Ray Douglas Bradbury Quotes |
| Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. Othal Brand Quotes |
| I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Hermann Broch Quotes |
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| The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to perservere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. Dr. Joyce Quotes |
| A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. Charles Hendrickson Brower Quotes |
| He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. Heywood Brown Quotes |
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| A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. Rita Mae Brown Quotes |
| That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect. Jean de La Bruyère Quotes |
| Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect. James D. Bryden Quotes |
| I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. William Frank Buckley, Jr. Quotes |
| Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. Buddha Quotes |
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| Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. Buddha Quotes |
| To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha Quotes |
| Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. Buddha Quotes |
| Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton Quotes |
| If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes |
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| If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead. Frank Gelett Burgess Quotes |
| The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well! Barbara Bush Quotes |
| The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination--a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton Quotes |
| Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James Francis Byrnes Quotes |
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| My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow? George Gordon Byron Quotes |
| Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. George Gordon Byron Quotes |
| It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable. George Gordon Byron Quotes |
| The die is cast. Gaius Julius Caesar Quotes |
| For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress. John Calvin Quotes |
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| What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. Albert Camus Quotes |
| I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. Frank Capra Quotes |
| Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George Quotes |
| Wouldn't it be weird if the only way people could die was that their heads suddenly exploded without warning? If there was simply no other cause of death? One day you'd be sitting there having a hot chocolate, and suddenly your head would explode. George Quotes |
| Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle Quotes |
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| The man who dies rich dies disgraced. Andrew Carnegie Quotes |
| Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie Quotes |
| I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Carter Quotes |
| After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. Marcius Porcius Cato Quotes |
| On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died! George W. Cecil Quotes |
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| Most people die at the last minute; others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. Louis Celine Quotes |
| The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a free horse to death. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other. Miguel de Cervantes Quotes |
| When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it cannot be cured. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Quotes |
| Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Quotes |
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| Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes |
| Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill Quotes |
| The unfit die -- the fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so? They who do survive. Sarah N. Cleghorn Quotes |
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| Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continunace. Frank Moore Colby Quotes |
| He can be lethal death. Jerry Coleman Quotes |
| Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on high;But oh! More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes |
| Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes |
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| Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| If we don't know life, how can we know death? Confucius Quotes |
| Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; Pierre Corneille Quotes |
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| Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. Norman Cousins Quotes |
| Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 5:18, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity. Clarence Cramer Quotes |
| I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right--then go ahead. Davy Crockett Quotes |
| It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
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| In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. Idi Amin Dada Quotes |
| We can now prove that large numbers of Americans are dying from sitting on their behinds. Bruce B. Dan Quotes |
| The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. Anthony de Mello Quotes |
| Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mile Quotes |
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| The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. Daniel Defoe Quotes |
| A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Quotes |
| Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead. Laertius Diogenes Quotes |
| Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence t |
