“Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”
— William Cowper
Author: William Cowper
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing
“Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.”
— Taylor Caldwell
Author: Taylor Caldwell
Category: death
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A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the
“A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.”
— Stanislav Grof
Author: Stanislav Grof
Category: death
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Marriage can be viewed as the waiting
“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.”
— Mike Myers
Author: Mike Myers
Category: death
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still,
“Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.”
— Heinrich Heine
Author: Heinrich Heine
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The goal of all life is death.
“The goal of all life is death.”
— Sigmund Freud
Author: Sigmund Freud
Category: death
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No matter how prepared you think you
“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”
— Billy Graham
Author: Billy Graham
Category: death
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The Teutons have been singing the swan
“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
— Henry Miller
Author: Henry Miller
Category: death
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It is vain for the coward to
“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”
— Voltaire
Author: Voltaire
Category: death
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The timing of death, like the ending
“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”
— Mary Catherine Bateson
Author: Mary Catherine Bateson
Category: death
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Sleep is the interest we have to
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Category: death
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