Death Quotes - Page 31

• And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

  Janet Morris

  Horse, Commitment, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.5, Paradise Publishing

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• Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art

  'To Night'

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• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Failure, Don't Give Up

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014

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• We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.
  [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

  Ovid

  Law, Goal, Black

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• [Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Pain, Sorrow, Asylums

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• When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

  Frederick Lenz

  Sleep, Essence, Personality

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• Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Giving, Sometimes

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• Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Morning, Home

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

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• You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Christian, Helping Others

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• One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Judging, Waiting, Evening

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• Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he welcomes death. Whenever death comes he hugs death, he embraces death, he welcomes death, he receives death as a guest. To the man who has not known what life is, death is an enemy; and to the man who knows what life is, death is the ultimate crescendo of life.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Simple, Hug

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• Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Reborn, Dies

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• There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.

  Evelyn Anthony

  Thinking, Way, Moments

  Evelyn Anthony (2015). “The Tamarind Seed”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• Death is better than disease.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Disease

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

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• We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spring, Eye, Soul

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• The dead have a presence.

  Don DeLillo

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• To learn to die is an heroic work.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Heroic, Dies

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.147

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• Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

  George Arnold

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.37

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• Only death does not lie.

  Sadegh Hedayat

  Lying, Doe

  Sadegh Hedayat (2010). “The Blind Owl”, p.56, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Dying, Alive

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• As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Dying, Born

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.46, Luigi Pirandello

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• Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
  A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

  John Ashbery

  Wise, Office, Purpose

  John Ashbery (2011). “The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press

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• The great thing about the dead, they make space.

  John Updike

  Space, Great Things

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Is Rich”, p.5, Random House

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• We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

  Albert Einstein

  Pain, Trying, Greatest Love

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.

  Wooden Leg

  Native American, Fighting, Dressing Up

  "Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer".

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