Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Death Quotes, Suicide Quotes

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

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I'm for a stronger death penalty.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

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Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

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The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.

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Death is the quiet haven of us all.

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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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And die of nothing but a rage to live.

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If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]

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Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

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The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death.

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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

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But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

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