Death Quotes - Page 36

• When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

  Anton Chekhov

  Medicine, Soul, Performing

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, May 7, 1889.

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• He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Lying, Men, Law

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• 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

  Father, Sea, Accompany Us

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• 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

  Dust, Soul, Elements

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• The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Girl, Years, Shoes

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• Every man at time of Death,
  Would fain set forth some saying that may live
  After his death and better humankind;
  For death gives life's last word a power to live,
  And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain
  After the vanished voice, and speak to men.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lying, Cutting, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1875). “Queen Mary. A Drama”, p.204

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• The night comes on that knows not morn,
  When I shall cease to be all alone,
  To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, And Love, Forgotten

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.283, Delphi Classics

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• All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

  William C. Bryant

  Dying, Slumber, Tribes

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• These have not the hope to die.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dying, Dies

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Death persecutes before it executes.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Death is dancing me ragged.

  Linda Hogan

  Dancing, Ragged

  Linda Hogan (1983). “Eclipse”, Amer Indian Studies Center

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