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Quotes about death and dying
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day. (Addison Joseph)
Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. (Addison Joseph)
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. (Addison Joseph)
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? (Addison Joseph)
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead. (Addison Joseph)
At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. Terrified, you will flee from the radiance. Try to submerge it is an obstacle blocking the path of liberation. yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the boundless light of this true reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved! (Addison Joseph)
But the peasants -- how do the peasants die? (Addison Joseph)
I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood. (Addison Joseph)
Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end. (Addison Joseph)
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes. (Addison Joseph)
Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. (Addison Joseph)
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. (Addison Joseph)
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. (Addison Joseph)
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier. (Addison Joseph)
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (Addison Joseph)
All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. (Addison Joseph)
We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death. (Addison Joseph)
When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us. (Addison Joseph)
To fear death is to misunderstand life. (Addison Joseph)
Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes. (Addison Joseph)
Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others. (Addison Joseph)
It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable. (Addison Joseph)
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. (Addison Joseph)
A good man dies when a boy goes wrong. (Addison Joseph)
What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indivisible Self must wander on and on from death to death. (Addison Joseph)
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