Walt Whitman Quotes, Death Quotes, Country Quotes

I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."

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It is natural to die as to be born.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Death Quotes , Dying Quotes

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

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

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

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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Death Quotes , Morning Quotes

And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Kings Quotes

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death Quotes , Failure Quotes

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Death Quotes , Eye 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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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Death Quotes

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Death Quotes , Essence Quotes

I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Death Quotes

Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death Quotes , Dust Quotes

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Death Quotes , Suicide Quotes

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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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Running Quotes

That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Death Quotes , Smart Quotes

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Death Quotes , Religious Quotes