| Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. -- H. L. Mencken |
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Mencken, H. L.Era:
1880 |
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| The goal of all life is death. -- Sigmund Freud |
| Author:
Freud, SigmundEra:
1856 |
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| death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. -- Confucius |
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ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. -- Charles Brower |
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Brower, CharlesEra:
1901 |
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| The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. -- Lucan |
| Author:
LucanEra:
39 |
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| Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. -- Arthur Schopenhauer |
| Author:
Schopenhauer, ArthurEra:
1788 |
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| We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. -- James Russell Lowell |
| Author:
Lowell, James RussellEra:
1819 |
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| death is delightful. death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. -- Joaquin Miller |
| Author:
Miller, JoaquinEra:
1839 |
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| death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me. -- Bret Harte |
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Harte, BretEra:
1836 |
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| The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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| Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. -- William Blake |
| Author:
Blake, WilliamEra:
1757 |
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| To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. -- Buddha |
| Author:
BuddhaEra:
-568 |
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| A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -- Joseph Stalin |
| Author:
Stalin, JosephEra:
1879 |
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| Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author:
GurdjieffEra:
1873 |
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| We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. -- Manilius |
| Author:
ManiliusEra:
100 |
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| The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. -- Kabbalah |
| Author:
KabbalahEra:
-1200 |
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| That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. -- Johann Von Schiller |
| Author:
Schiller, Johann VonEra:
1759 |
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| Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. -- Horace |
| Author:
HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too. -- Omar Khayyam |
| Author:
Khayyam, OmarEra:
1100 |
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| Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author:
Dhammapada, TheEra:
-300 |
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| If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| If thou wouldst preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations...For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed. The joy which she promiseth changeth to madness, and her enjoyments lead on to diseases and death. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! -- Agnes Repplier |
| Author:
Repplier, AgnesEra:
1855 |
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| The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. -- Titus Maccius Plautus |
| Author:
Plautus, Titus MacciusEra:
-254 |
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| Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. -- Rabelais |
| Author:
RabelaisEra:
1490 |
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| The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, the smoke of hell - that monster called Pain. -- Philip Sidney |
| Author:
Sidney, PhilipEra:
1554 |
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| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. -- Lord Byron |
| Author:
Byron, LordEra:
1788 |
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| Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. -- Adlai E. Stevenson |
| Author:
Stevenson, AdlaiEra:
1900 |
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| This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. -- Robert Herrick |
| Author:
Herrick, RobertEra:
1591 |
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| death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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