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Quotes about death and dying
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. (Addison Joseph)
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. (Addison Joseph)
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. (Addison Joseph)
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. (Addison Joseph)
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will. (Addison Joseph)
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! (Addison Joseph)
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. (Addison Joseph)
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. (Addison Joseph)
I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. (Addison Joseph)
Death is the final wake-up call. (Addison Joseph)
To awake from death is to die in peace. (Addison Joseph)
Death is feared as birth is forgotten. (Addison Joseph)
To stop sinning suddenly. (Addison Joseph)
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. (Addison Joseph)
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. (Addison Joseph)
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. (Addison Joseph)
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. (Addison Joseph)
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish. (Addison Joseph)
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. (Addison Joseph)
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. (Addison Joseph)
When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain. (Addison Joseph)
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. (Addison Joseph)
Teach me to live that I may dread, the grave as little as my bed. (Addison Joseph)
In the long run we are all dead. (Addison Joseph)
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return (Addison Joseph)
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