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Quotes about death and dying
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances. (Addison Joseph)
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth. (Addison Joseph)
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. (Addison Joseph)
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. (Addison Joseph)
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. (Addison Joseph)
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye (Addison Joseph)
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us. (Addison Joseph)
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. (Addison Joseph)
The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. (Addison Joseph)
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival? (Addison Joseph)
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. (Addison Joseph)
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. (Addison Joseph)
The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past. (Addison Joseph)
I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn. (Addison Joseph)
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. (Addison Joseph)
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life. (Addison Joseph)
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. (Addison Joseph)
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. (Addison Joseph)
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. (Addison Joseph)
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. (Addison Joseph)
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. (Addison Joseph)
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. (Addison Joseph)
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side. (Addison Joseph)
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. (Addison Joseph)
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. (Addison Joseph)
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