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Quotes about death and dying
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. (Addison Joseph)
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. (Addison Joseph)
Death is a distant rumor to the young. (Addison Joseph)
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. (Addison Joseph)
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget. (Addison Joseph)
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. (Addison Joseph)
Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens. (Addison Joseph)
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? (Addison Joseph)
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. (Addison Joseph)
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. (Addison Joseph)
Most people would rather die than think: many do. (Addison Joseph)
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. (Addison Joseph)
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another. (Addison Joseph)
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never. (Addison Joseph)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity. (Addison Joseph)
What shall he fear that does not fear death. (Addison Joseph)
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. (Addison Joseph)
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth. (Addison Joseph)
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. (Addison Joseph)
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last. (Addison Joseph)
Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. (Addison Joseph)
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening. (Addison Joseph)
I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade. (Addison Joseph)
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. (Addison Joseph)
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. (Addison Joseph)
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