Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Death Quotes, Courage Quotes

He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

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

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Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

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IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

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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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It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.

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Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.

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O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

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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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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.

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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

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Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

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All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

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To conquer death you only have to die.

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Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

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