Mark Twain Quotes, Death Quotes, Honesty Quotes

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

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That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious Tis almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Death Quotes , Bustle Quotes

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Death Quotes , Land Quotes

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Death Quotes , Father Quotes

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Death Quotes , Buddhist Quotes

Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Death Quotes , Summer Quotes

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Kings Quotes

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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Death Quotes , Running Quotes

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Death Quotes , Names Quotes

Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Death Quotes , Past Quotes

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Death Quotes , Suicide Quotes

Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Death Quotes , Mother Quotes

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Death Quotes , Wine Quotes

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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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Death Quotes , Clothes Quotes

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Death Quotes , Hero Quotes

Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Love Quotes , Death Quotes

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Death Quotes

Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Death Quotes , Matter Quotes