“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
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Category: death
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“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
— W. H. Auden
Author: W. H. Auden
Category: death
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“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”
— Thomas Wolfe
Author: Thomas Wolfe
Category: death
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“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: death
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“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”
— Thomas Mann
Author: Thomas Mann
Category: death
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“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Author: Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Category: death
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“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.”
— Herodotus
Author: Herodotus
Category: death
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“Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.”
— Margot Kidder
Author: Margot Kidder
Category: death
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“The distinctions of fine art bore me to death.”
— Maurice Sendak
Author: Maurice Sendak
Category: death
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“I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
— Nancy Reagan
Author: Nancy Reagan
Category: death
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“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
— Lord Byron
Author: Lord Byron
Category: death
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