Plato Quotes, Death Quotes, Blessing Quotes

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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Call no man happy till he is dead.

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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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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Death Quotes , Exercise Quotes

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

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Tags : Adela Rogers St. Johns Quotes , Death Quotes , Thinking Quotes

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Death Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Sad Quotes , Death Quotes

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

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

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Death Quotes , Wells Quotes

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Sight Quotes

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

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Tags : Catullus Quotes , Death Quotes , Dark Quotes

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes

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

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Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Life Quotes , Death Quotes

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

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Death Quotes

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Death Quotes , War Quotes

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

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Death Quotes , Courage Quotes