Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Men, Soul

• Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Higher, Fruitful Life

• Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Secret, Decay

• Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Advancement, Rising

• There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Sweet, Children

• We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they may cling to us there; but that one long wave from the sea of eternity washes up to the lips, sweeps us from the shore, and we go forth alone! In that untried and utter solitude, then, what can there be for us but the pulsation of that assurance, "I am not alone, because the Father is with me!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Father, Sea

• For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Men, Forget

• It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Dust, Soul

• Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Beautiful, Death, Kindness

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