| Quotation 1 : | DEATH
"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." |
| — J.K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 2 : | DEATH
"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life." |
| — Terry Pratchett |
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| Quotation 3 : | DEATH
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." |
| — Leonardo da Vinci |
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| Quotation 4 : | DEATH
"The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents; and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 5 : | DEATH
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." |
| — J.K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 6 : | DEATH
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it." |
| — Haruki Murakami |
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| Quotation 7 : | DEATH
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 8 : | DEATH
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." |
| Albert Pike |
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| Quotation 9 : | DEATH
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent." |
| Buddha |
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| Quotation 10 : | DEATH
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 11 : | DEATH
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." |
| Mark Twain |
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| Quotation 12 : | DEATH
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." |
| George Eliot |
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| Quotation 13 : | DEATH
"Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'" |
| Bill Maher |
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| Quotation 14 : | DEATH
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die." |
| Leonardo da Vinci |
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| Quotation 15 : | DEATH
"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order." |
| David Gerrold |
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| Quotation 16 : | DEATH
"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Lif" |
| Steve Jobs |
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| Quotation 17 : | DEATH
"Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men." |
| Quintus Ennius |
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| Quotation 18 : | DEATH
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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| Quotation 19 : | DEATH
"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies." |
| Gustave Flaubert |
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| Quotation 20 : | DEATH
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." |
| Mark Twain |
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| Quotation 21 : | DEATH
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead." |
| Albert Einstein |
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| Quotation 22 : | DEATH
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." |
| Clarence Darrow |
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| Quotation 23 : | DEATH
"No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow." |
| Euripides |
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| Quotation 24 : | DEATH
"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero" |
| Tecumseh |
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| Quotation 25 : | DEATH
"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?" |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Quotation 26 : | DEATH
"I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life." |
| Corazon Aquino |
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| Quotation 27 : | DEATH
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| Quotation 28 : | DEATH
"It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of" |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| Quotation 29 : | DEATH
"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now." |
| Angelina Jolie |
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| Quotation 30 : | DEATH
"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life." |
| Jack Kerouac |
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| Quotation 31 : | DEATH
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity." |
| Edvard Munch |
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| Quotation 32 : | DEATH
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." |
| William Penn |
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| Quotation 33 : | DEATH
"Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body." |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| Quotation 34 : | DEATH
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people." |
| Khalil Gibran |
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| Quotation 35 : | DEATH
"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life." |
| Bertolt Brecht |
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| Quotation 36 : | DEATH
"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies." |
| Elie Wiesel |
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| Quotation 37 : | DEATH
"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man." |
| Miguel de Unamuno |
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| Quotation 38 : | DEATH
"The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them." |
| Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| Quotation 39 : | DEATH
"Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns." |
| Bryant H. McGill |
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| Quotation 40 : | DEATH
"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it." |
| Mary Catherine Bateson |
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| Quotation 41 : | DEATH
"Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn." |
| B. R. Hayden |
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| Quotation 42 : | DEATH
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying." |
| Jean Cocteau |
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| Quotation 43 : | DEATH
"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it." |
| Alice Walker |
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| Quotation 44 : | DEATH
"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing." |
| Maurice Maeterlinck |
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| Quotation 45 : | DEATH
"The idea is to die young as late as possible." |
| Ashley Montagu |
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| Quotation 46 : | DEATH
"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead." |
| Samuel Butler |
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| Quotation 47 : | DEATH
"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings." |
| Horace |
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| Quotation 48 : | DEATH
"I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different." |
| T. S. Eliot |
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| Quotation 49 : | DEATH
"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave." |
| Joseph Hall |
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| Quotation 50 : | DEATH
"He who doesn't fear death dies only once." |
| Giovanni Falcone |
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| Quotation 51 : | DEATH
"It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace." |
| Anna Akhmatova |
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| Quotation 52 : | DEATH
"Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world." |
| Henry Miller |
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| Quotation 53 : | DEATH
"Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece." |
| June Singer |
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| Quotation 54 : | DEATH
"If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide into the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one." |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Quotation 55 : | DEATH
"Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears." |
| Voltaire |
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| Quotation 56 : | DEATH
"Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness" |
| John Smith |
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| Quotation 57 : | DEATH
"The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness." |
| Paramahansa Yogananda |
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| Quotation 58 : | DEATH
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth." |
| Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| Quotation 59 : | DEATH
"...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless" |
| Sogyal Rinpoche |
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| Quotation 60 : | DEATH
"The dross of materiality burned away by the astral vibrations, the soul blossoms and bears spiritual fruit in the new life." |
| Yogi Ramacharaka |
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| Quotation 61 : | DEATH
"The breaking of forms which we call death releases the consciousness within for the new adventure of building other forms for further growth." |
| Joy Mills |
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| Quotation 62 : | DEATH
"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise." |
| Stanislav Grof |
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| Quotation 63 : | DEATH
"“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions o" |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| Quotation 64 : | DEATH
"“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”" |
| Stephen Covey |
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| Quotation 65 : | DEATH
"“Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the experience of life with wisdom and with a heart of kindness, without any separation.”" |
| Jack Kornfield |
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| Quotation 66 : | DEATH
"“If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.”" |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Quotation 67 : | DEATH
"“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”" |
| Buddha |
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| Quotation 68 : | DEATH
"“It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.”" |
| Buddha |
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| Quotation 69 : | DEATH
"“The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”" |
| Hubert van Zeller |
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| Quotation 70 : | DEATH
"“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.”" |
| Richard Bach |
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| Quotation 71 : | DEATH
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens." |
| — Woody Allen |
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| Quotation 72 : | DEATH
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live." |
| — Natalie Babbitt |
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| Quotation 73 : | DEATH
"“It was not born; It will never die: nor once having been, can it ever cease to be: Unborn, Eternal, Ever-enduring, yet Most Ancient, the Spirit dies not when the body is dead.”" |
| Lord Krishna |
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| Quotation 74 : | DEATH
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." |
| — Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 75 : | DEATH
"There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today." |
| — George R.R. Martin |
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| Quotation 76 : | DEATH
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." |
| — J.K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 77 : | DEATH
"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect." |
| — J.K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 78 : | DEATH
"Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will." |
| — Mary Stewart |
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| Quotation 79 : | DEATH
"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?" |
| — Chuck Palahniuk |
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| Quotation 80 : | DEATH
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." |
| — Rumi |
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| Quotation 81 : | DEATH
"I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years." |
| — J.K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 82 : | DEATH
"I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen." |
| — J.G. Ballard |
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| Quotation 83 : | DEATH
"“Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most dee" |
| David Deida |
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| Quotation 84 : | DEATH
"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two men" |
| Swami Sivananda |
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| Quotation 85 : | DEATH
"I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life." |
| — Eugene O'Neill |
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| Quotation 86 : | DEATH
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." |
| — S.G. Tallentyre |
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| Quotation 87 : | DEATH
"I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art." |
| — Jennifer Egan |
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| Quotation 88 : | DEATH
"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all." |
| — William Goldman |
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| Quotation 89 : | DEATH
"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH." |
| — Terry Pratchett |
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| Quotation 90 : | DEATH
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live." |
| — Victor Hugo |
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| Quotation 91 : | DEATH
"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life." |
| — Sue Monk Kidd |
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| Quotation 92 : | DEATH
"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities." |
| — George R.R. Martin |
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| Quotation 93 : | DEATH
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender." |
| — Tupac Shakur |
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| Quotation 94 : | DEATH
"People living deeply have no fear of death." |
| — Anaïs Nin |
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| Quotation 95 : | DEATH
"Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second." |
| — J.K. Rowling |
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| Quotation 96 : | DEATH
"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the w" |
| — George Carlin |
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| Quotation 97 : | DEATH
"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on S" |
| — J.D. Salinger |
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| Quotation 98 : | DEATH
"To die, to sleep -
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,
For in this sleep of death what dreams may come..." |
| — William Shakespeare |
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| Quotation 99 : | DEATH
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." |
| — Ernest Hemingway |
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| Quotation 100 : | DEATH
"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life." |
| — Jean Giraudoux |
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| Quotation 101 : | DEATH
"It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies." |
| — Sylvia Townsend Warner |
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| Quotation 102 : | DEATH
"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal." |
| — Benjamin Franklin |
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| Quotation 103 : | DEATH
"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud..." |
| — Yann Martel |
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| Quotation 104 : | DEATH
"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five." |
| — Benjamin Franklin |
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| Quotation 105 : | DEATH
"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live." |
| — Lao Tzu |
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| Quotation 106 : | DEATH
"The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective." |
| — James Patterson |
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| Quotation 107 : | DEATH
"If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad." |
| — Jayne Anne Phillips |
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| Quotation 108 : | DEATH
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear." |
| — Rumi |
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| Quotation 109 : | DEATH
"Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality." |
| — Chuck Palahniuk |
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| Quotation 110 : | DEATH
"I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time." |
| — Banksy |
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| Quotation 111 : | DEATH
"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another." |
| — John Lennon |
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| Quotation 112 : | DEATH
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." |
| — Norman Cousins |
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| Quotation 113 : | DEATH
"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual" |
| — Virginia Woolf |
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| Quotation 114 : | DEATH
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." |
| — H.P. Lovecraft |
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| Quotation 115 : | DEATH
"Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open" |
| — Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 116 : | DEATH
"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life." |
| — Markus Zusak |
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| Quotation 117 : | DEATH
"It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear." |
| — Michael Crichton |
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| Quotation 118 : | DEATH
"I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!" |
| — Anne Frank |
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| Quotation 119 : | DEATH
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." |
| — Anaïs Nin |
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| Quotation 120 : | DEATH
"The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that" |
| — Goldie Hawn |
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| Quotation 121 : | DEATH
"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free o" |
| — Socrates |
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| Quotation 122 : | DEATH
"When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other." |
| — Rob Sheffield |
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| Quotation 123 : | DEATH
"Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed." |
| — Mitch Albom |
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| Quotation 124 : | DEATH
"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." |
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| Quotation 125 : | DEATH
"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be liv" |
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| Quotation 126 : | DEATH
"It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out" |
| — Jeffrey Eugenides |
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| Quotation 127 : | DEATH
"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." |
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| Quotation 128 : | DEATH
"It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." |
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| Quotation 129 : | DEATH
"If aught must be lost, ‘twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, ‘twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, ‘twill be my life for yours. I am Given." |
| — Karen Marie Moning |
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| Quotation 130 : | DEATH
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." |
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| Quotation 131 : | DEATH
"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time." |
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| Quotation 132 : | DEATH
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live." |
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| Quotation 133 : | DEATH
"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life." |
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| Quotation 134 : | DEATH
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement." |
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| Quotation 135 : | DEATH
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world." |
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| Quotation 136 : | DEATH
"I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence." |
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| Quotation 137 : | DEATH
"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..." |
| — Terry Pratchett |
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| Quotation 138 : | DEATH
"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know" |
| — Carl Sagan |
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| Quotation 139 : | DEATH
"If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything." |
| — John Green |
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| Quotation 140 : | DEATH
"It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength." |
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| Quotation 141 : | DEATH
"Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy." |
| — Emily Brontë |
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| Quotation 142 : | DEATH
"It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die." |
| — Chuck Palahniuk |
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| Quotation 143 : | DEATH
"Life is too short when you think of the length of death" |
| — Sean Mangan |
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| Quotation 144 : | DEATH
"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principle" |
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| Quotation 145 : | DEATH
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can." |
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| Quotation 146 : | DEATH
"So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son o" |
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| Quotation 147 : | DEATH
"There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always." |
| — Isabel Allende |
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| Quotation 148 : | DEATH
"I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives ar" |
| — Jonathan Safran Foer |
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| Quotation 149 : | DEATH
"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death." |
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| Quotation 150 : | DEATH
"Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 151 : | DEATH
"According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too" |
| — Jonathan Stroud |
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"I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died." |
| — Sylvia Plath |
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| Quotation 153 : | DEATH
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." |
| — Albert Einstein |
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| Quotation 154 : | DEATH
"My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map." |
| — Rachel Caine |
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| Quotation 155 : | DEATH
"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to die before you die" --- and find that there is no death."" |
| — Eckhart Tolle |
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| Quotation 156 : | DEATH
"They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person." |
| — Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| Quotation 157 : | DEATH
"Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism." |
| — Albert Camus |
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| Quotation 158 : | DEATH
"Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's" |
| — Gayle Forman |
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| Quotation 159 : | DEATH
"If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, erhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as whe" |
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"You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that be must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying." |
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"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable" |
| — George Eliot |
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| Quotation 162 : | DEATH
"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die." |
| — Haruki Murakami |
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| Quotation 163 : | DEATH
"I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk" |
| — Raymond Carver |
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"It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close." |
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| Quotation 165 : | DEATH
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep." |
| — George Gordon Byron |
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| Quotation 166 : | DEATH
"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws." |
| — Jim Morrison |
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| Quotation 167 : | DEATH
"There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death." |
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| Quotation 168 : | DEATH
"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world." |
| — Madeline Miller |
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| Quotation 169 : | DEATH
"Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been o" |
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| Quotation 170 : | DEATH
"Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds" |
| — Haruki Murakami |
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| Quotation 171 : | DEATH
"End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it." |
| — J.R.R. Tolkien |
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| Quotation 172 : | DEATH
"It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life worth it. When you live with it everyday. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the thunder and after a nightmare. When love is your refuge from the death" |
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"If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got." |
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"We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she wil" |
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"We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conqu" |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 176 : | DEATH
"The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole" |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 177 : | DEATH
"The Incarnation through the death of Christ makes it possible for God to be "just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus." If God should be merciful without the satisfaction of justice, He would cease to be a God of justice and would thus forfe" |
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| Quotation 178 : | DEATH
"Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned." |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 179 : | DEATH
"Gospellers have much to say about what Christ's death accomplished for those who believe in Him, but very little is said about what that Death accomplished Godwards. The fact is that the death of Christ glorified God if never a single sinner had been save" |
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| Quotation 180 : | DEATH
"When men sought to make Him a king He fled; now that they seek to put Him to death He goes out to meet them." |
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"They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them." |
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"For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who do or teach anything wrong, but it is by all means vital for the lover of truth, regardless of the threat of death, to choose to do and say what is right even before saving his o" |
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"...I have now to ask whether you can consent to part with your daughter early next spring, to see her no more in this world? Whether you can consent to see her departure to a heathen land, and her subjection to the hardships and sufferings of a missionary" |
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"The greatest harm that can be suffered in the fight against perceived evil and injustice is not physical death or "occupation." It is the death of the conscience and spirit cut off from the nourishment of moral law." |
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"When a denomination begins to consider doctrine divisive, theology troublesome, and convictions inconvenient, consider that denomination on its way to a well-deserved death." |
| Albert Mohler |
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"The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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"If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy--think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up fro" |
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"If you love your 'Truths' more than you love people, then you are an out-and-out Pharisee. Nothing less. And you will create condemnation and death in people, rather than 'conviction' and LIFE." |
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| Quotation 189 : | DEATH
"He hideth our unrighteousness with His righteousness, He covereth our disobedience with his obedience, He shadoweth our death with His death, that the wrath of God cannot find us." |
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"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" |
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"Everything science has taught me - and continues to teach me - strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace." |
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"We want to reach the kingdom of God, but we don't want to travel by way of death. And yet there stands Necessity saying: 'This way, please.' Do not hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you." |
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"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all." |
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"The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That's the point. It should keep us humbled... It's not our own goo" |
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"Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 196 : | DEATH
"When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.'" |
| C.S. Lewis |
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that bir" |
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"Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not subject myself to punishment-even to death. If you had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and b" |
| C.S. Lewis |
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"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; do noble things, not dream them all day long; and so make life, death, and that vast forever one grand, sweet song." |
| Charles Kingsley |
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"When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of p" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"A sight of His death - if it is a true sight - is the death of all love of sin." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves; it creates hesitancy, despondency, despair. Its progress is the decay of comfort, the death of peace. "Believe!" is the word which speaks life into a man, but doubt nails down his coffin." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 206 : | DEATH
"He had, when in health, wickedly refused Christ, yet in his death-agony, he had superstitiously sent for me. Too late, he sighed for the ministry of reconciliation, and sought to enter in at the closed door, but he was not able. There was no space left hi" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 207 : | DEATH
"I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death, still to be a soul winner, still to be a true herald of the cross, and testify the name of Jesus to the last hour. It is o" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 208 : | DEATH
"If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 209 : | DEATH
"That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which death cannot tear out of my hand." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 210 : | DEATH
"We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of Death smiting our best beloved." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 211 : | DEATH
"Keep your eye simply on Him; let His death, His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when you wake in the morning look to Him; when thou lie down at night look to Him. Oh! let not your hopes or fears come between" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but s" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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"There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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