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Quotes about death and dying
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. (Addison Joseph)
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. (Addison Joseph)
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. (Addison Joseph)
At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless. (Addison Joseph)
A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. (Addison Joseph)
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. (Addison Joseph)
The world is the mirror of myself dying. (Addison Joseph)
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. (Addison Joseph)
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light. (Addison Joseph)
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. (Addison Joseph)
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. (Addison Joseph)
I want death to find me planting my cabbage (Addison Joseph)
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. (Addison Joseph)
It is not death that alarms me, but dying. (Addison Joseph)
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. (Addison Joseph)
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. (Addison Joseph)
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings! (Addison Joseph)
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event. (Addison Joseph)
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. (Addison Joseph)
So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another. (Addison Joseph)
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. (Addison Joseph)
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. (Addison Joseph)
An evil life is a kind of death. (Addison Joseph)
He that lives to forever, never fears dying. (Addison Joseph)
He has gone over to the majority. (Addison Joseph)
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