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Death |
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| "The hour of departure has arrived, and we
go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only
knows." |
| -- Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) |
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| "Then shall the dust return to the earth
as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." |
| -- Ecclesiastes xii. 7, The Bible |
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep." |
| -- Robert Frost, American poet |
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| "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's
the transition that's troublesome." |
| -- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992) |
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| "We are going to die, and that makes us
the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are
never going to be born." |
| -- Richard Dawkins, English theoretical
physicist
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| "When you were born, you cried and the
world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries
and you rejoice." |
| -- American Indian Proverb |
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| "The call of death is a
call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we
accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation." |
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--
Hermann Hesse
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| "If we don't know life, how can we know death?" |
| -- Confucius
(c. 551-479? BC), Chinese sage |
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“I'm not afraid of death.
It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.” |
| -- Jean Giraudoux |
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| "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it
happens." |
| -- Woody Allen (Born 1935) |
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“For
certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.” |
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--
Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2 |
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| "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no
risk of accident for someone who's dead." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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| "Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that
which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable." |
| -- Bhagavad
Gita (c. BC 400) |
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| "Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good
deeds." |
| -- Buddha
(563?-483? BC), [Siddhartha Gautama] Indian mystic, founder of
Buddhism |
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| “He
not busy being born is busy dying.” |
| -- Bob Dylan, American musician and writer |
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| "The only religious way to think of death is as a part and
parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as
the inviolable condition of life." |
| -- Thomas
Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic |
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"To save your world you asked this man to
die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" |
| -- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), English poet
("Epitaph for am Unknown Soldier") |
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| "Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when
it comes." |
| -- John
Donne (1572-1631), English metaphysical poet |
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| "On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can
be done just as easily lying down." |
| -- Woody
Allen (b. 1935), American writer, comedian, actor |
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| "Death: to stop sinning suddenly." |
| -- Anonymous |
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- "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy
the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings
out the tender colors of life in all their purity."
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| -- George Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish-born
American philosopher |
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| "For myself, I can not
imagine what comes of me after my death. Nothing pleasant I would
imagine. My time to be is between womb and tomb. That is hopefully
long enough and challenge enough for all eternity." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "Everything is changeable, everything appears and
disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony
of life and death." |
| -- Buddha
(563?-483? BC), [Siddhartha Gautama] Indian mystic, founder of
Buddhism |
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| "Be
ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." |
| -- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859) |
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“Die, v.: To stop
sinning suddenly.” |
| -- Elbert Hubbard |
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| "The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it
alone and no one is going to make fun of you." |
| -- Woody Allen (Born 1935) |
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| "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already
what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's
life." |
| -- Jean-Paul
Sartre (1905-80), French writer, philosopher |
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“For death is no more than a
turning of us over from time to eternity.” |
| -- William Penn, American founder |
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“While I thought that I was
learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” |
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-- Leonardo
da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, sculptor, scientist |
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| "To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose
oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form." |
| -- Herman Hesse (1877-1962),
German-born Swiss writer |
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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 (b. 1924), English author |
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| "You should always go to other people's
funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours." |
| -- Yogi Berra (b. 1925), American baseball
player, manager |
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| "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
(1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman |
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| "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only
at death." |
| -- Albert
Einstein (1875-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "A doctor's reputation is made by the
number of eminent men who die under his care." |
| -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) |
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| "I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of
underwear." |
| -- Woody Allen (Born 1935) |
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“An
old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
Isn't it ironic... don't you think?” |
| -- Alanis Morissette, Canadian rock musician |
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| Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know
how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and
betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of
witherings, of tarnishings." |
| -- Anaïs
Nin (1903-77), French-born American writer, diarist |
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| "I do not agree with what you say, but I will
defend to the death your right to say it." |
| -- Francois Marie Arouet
Voltaire (1694-1778), French philosopher, writer, "Candide" |
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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 |
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| “Death is caused by swallowing
small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."
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| -- Rush Limbaugh, American radio host |
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| "No man is an Island, entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod
be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a
promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in
Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee." |
| -- John Donne (1572-1631), English metaphysical
poet |
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| "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." |
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-- Thomas
Mann (1875-1955), German author, critic |
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From my rotting body, flowers
shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” |
| -- Edvard Munch, Danish artist |
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| "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 (1898-1943), American
writer |
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| "When you die, if you get a choice between
going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might
be a trick, but if it's not, ummmm, boy." |
| -- Jack Handey |
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“As a well spent day brings
happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.” |
| -- Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian artist |
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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 Gladiator |
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| “I intend to live forever.
So far, so good.” |
| -- Steven Wright |
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| “I wouldn't mind dying - it's
the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of
me.” |
| -- R. Geis |
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| "In this world nothing can be said to be
certain, except death and taxes." |
| -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American
stateman, writer, scientist |
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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.”
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| -- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher |
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“Suicide is man's way of
telling God, ‘You can't fire me - I quit.’
” |
| -- Bill Maher, American talk show host |
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| “Generally
speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of
death.” |
| -- Miyamoto Musashi (1645) |
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| "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 (1452-1519), Italian
painter |
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“Instant Karma's gonna
get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin' to do
It's up to you, yeah you “
|
| -- John Lennon, English rock composer and
performer |
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- "For three days after death hair and fingernails
continue to grow but phone calls taper off.."
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| -- Johnny Carson |
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| "As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true
goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close
relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is
not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and
consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the
opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to
our true happiness." |
| -- Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (1756-91), Austrian composer |
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| "The graveyards are full of indispensable
men." |
| -- General Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970),
French statesman |
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| "The tragedy of life is what dies in the
hearts and souls of people while they live." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "All changes, even the most longed for,
have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of
ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter
another." |
| -- Anatole France (1844 - 1924) |
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| "Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a
little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a
barn." |
| -- Anouk Aimée (b. 1932), French actor |
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| "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 (1871-1922), French writer |
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"Buffalo Bill 's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death"
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| -- e. e. cummings, American poet |
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| "Cowards die many times before their
deaths; The valiant never taste death but once. Of all the wonders
that I yet have heard, It seems to me the most strange that men
should fear, Seeing that death is a necessary end, will come when it
will come." |
| -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English
playwright |
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| "Perhaps the best cure for the fear of
death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
There was time when we were not; this gives us no concern -- why
then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease
to be?" |
| -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British
essayist |
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Now troubles are many
there as
deep as a well
I can swear there ain't no Heaven
but I pray there ain't no hell
Swear there ain't no Heaven
and I'll pray there ain't no hell
but I'll never know by livin'
only my dyin' will tell, yes only my
dyin' will tell, oh yeah,
Only my dyin' will tell
And when I die, and when I'm gone
there'll be, one child born, in this world
to carry on, to carry on
yeah yeah |
| -- Laura Nyro, American singer and lyricist |
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