Alan Watts Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Death Quotes

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

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It is a modest creed, and yet Pleasant if one considers it, To own that death itself must be, Like all the rest, a mockery.

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Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

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By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

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What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!

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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

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

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It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

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So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

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Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

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And mighty poets in their misery dead.

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Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

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We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave--us!

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I could not stop for death and he did not stop for me.

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Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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