Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Death Quotes, Eye Quotes

But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

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Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.

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Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

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Death is a mighty, universal truth.

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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

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

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

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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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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

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

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

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Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

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Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death.

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