Death Quotes - Page 27

• Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loss, Teach, Beach House

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.6, Publishdrive

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• Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.

  Philip Massinger

  Discipline, Lines, Study

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• When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.

  Reginald Heber

  Looks, Veils, May

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• Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

  Adam Clarke

  Father, Dark, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

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• If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Thinking, Water, Grace

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.56

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• And thou art terrible--the tear,
  The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
  And all we know, or dream, or fear
  Of agony, are thine.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Dream, Art, Agony

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.13

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• All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Order, Dying, Principles

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• The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

  Thomas Southerne

  Lying, Together, Firsts

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• 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

  Secret, Decay, Vitality

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• 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

  Advancement, Rising, Decay

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• 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

  Sweet, Children, Giving Up

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• Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?

  Enoch Fitch Burr

  Angel, Men, Heaven

  Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.305

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• I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Names, Belief

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

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• It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hatred, Increase, Veneration

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.4

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• Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.

  Samuel Johnson

  Philosophy, Comfort, May

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.277

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• When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

  Samuel Johnson

  Law, Forever, Enemy

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.442

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• A death-like sleep,
  A gentle wafting to immortal life.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Immortal Life, Gentle

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.446

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• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dying, Benefits, Universal

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• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  Adam Clarke

  Sin, Fit, Glory

  Adam Clarke (1830*). “Principles of the Christian Religion: extracted from the Clavis Biblica of the Rev. A. Clarke”, p.9

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• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  John Dryden

  Life, Nature, Dying

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• The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death, is the very character wherewith we shall re-appear on the day of resurrection.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Character, Resurrection, Graves

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• Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Solitude, Dying, Abyss

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• At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Men, Choices, Dying

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

  Janet Frame

  Accomplishment, May, Language

  Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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