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Quotes about death and dying
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. (Addison Joseph)
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. (Addison Joseph)
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. (Addison Joseph)
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no. (Addison Joseph)
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. (Addison Joseph)
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will. (Addison Joseph)
All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. (Addison Joseph)
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. (Addison Joseph)
To die is landing on some distant shore. (Addison Joseph)
A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go. (Addison Joseph)
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. (Addison Joseph)
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. (Addison Joseph)
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. (Addison Joseph)
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. (Addison Joseph)
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. (Addison Joseph)
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. (Addison Joseph)
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls. (Addison Joseph)
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. (Addison Joseph)
Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me. (Addison Joseph)
But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay. (Addison Joseph)
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. (Addison Joseph)
It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible. (Addison Joseph)
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible. (Addison Joseph)
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him. (Addison Joseph)
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep. (Addison Joseph)
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