Death Quotes - Page 34

• He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

  John Dryden

  Morning, Dying, Dew

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”

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• So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Home, Dying

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• The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Attractive, Species

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• one day anyone died i guess
  (and noone stooped to kiss his face)
  busy folk buried them side by side
  little by little and was by was

  e. e. cummings

  Kissing, One Day, Sides

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.73, Grove Press

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• Buffalo Bill's
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  e. e. cummings

  Bills, Buffalo, Buffalo Bills

  'Portraits' no. 8 (1923)

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• To die at the command of another is to die twice.

  Publilius Syrus

  Command, Dies

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• I do so hate to leave this world.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, World, This World

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• Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Family, Children, Order

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• It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Mean, Evil, Suffering

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• The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Sleep, Transition, Waking

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.19

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Real, Loss, Thinking

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• The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Attitude, Hands, Perfect

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1997). “The Other Side of Death: Scientifically Examined and Carefully Described”, Kessinger Publishing

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• Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Children, War, Home

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1789). “Introduction to the Art of Thinking. Fourth edition, enlarged, etc”, p.46

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• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Shining, Shadow, Thrill

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• Beauty is fading, nor is fortune stable; sooner or later death comes to all.

  Propertius

  Fading, Fortune, Sooner Or Later

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• That death is best which comes appropriately at a ripe age.

  Propertius

  Age, Ripe

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• Death is not the worst sorrow.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Sorrow, Worst

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• O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
  The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
  And all the good embrace, who know the grave
  A short dark passage to eternal light.

  William Davenant

  Wise, Dark, Light

  William Davenant, “Frail Life! In Which, Through Mists Of Human Breath”

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• It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Misery, Sin, Dies

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• I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.

  Francois Fenelon

  Humility, Hands, Age

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• There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

  Francois Fenelon

  Men, World, Break

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• Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
  When the last fires will wave to me

  W. S. Merwin

  Fire, Self, Years

  William Stanley Merwin, “For The Anniversary Of My Death”

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• Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.

  Norman Maclean

  Young, Reach Out, Stills

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

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  Ram Dass

  Learning, Ego, Soul

  Ram Dass (2011). “Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart”, p.95, Random House

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• Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Grief, Mourn

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.45, Indiana University Press

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