Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Death Quotes, Dying Quotes

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

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

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

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Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest. [Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago? Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]

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

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In the capacious urn of death, every name is shaken. [Lat., Omne capax movet urna nomen.]

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Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

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Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

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Death is a mighty, universal truth.

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The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

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Speak me fair in death.

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Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

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The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

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