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Quotes about death and dying
O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living. (Addison Joseph)
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death. (Addison Joseph)
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. (Addison Joseph)
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? (Addison Joseph)
He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. (Addison Joseph)
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. (Addison Joseph)
Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last. (Addison Joseph)
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. (Addison Joseph)
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed. (Addison Joseph)
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. (Addison Joseph)
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. (Addison Joseph)
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death. (Addison Joseph)
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. (Addison Joseph)
Life is a dream walking death is a going home. (Addison Joseph)
Death is a shadow that always follows the body. (Addison Joseph)
Death always comes too early or too late. (Addison Joseph)
Our last garment is made without pockets. (Addison Joseph)
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. (Addison Joseph)
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. (Addison Joseph)
There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. (Addison Joseph)
A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin. (Addison Joseph)
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. (Addison Joseph)
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! (Addison Joseph)
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. (Addison Joseph)
So little done, so much to do. (Addison Joseph)
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