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The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life
itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
- in death
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Do not pass by my epitaph, traveler.
But having stopped, listen and learn, then go your way.
There is no boat in Hades, no ferryman Charon,
No caretaker Aiakos, no dog Cerberus.
All we who are dead below
Have become bones and ashes, but nothing else.
I have spoken to you honestly, go on, traveler,
Lest even while dead I seem loquacious to you.
- in death
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...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 compassion for all beings.
- in death
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My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
- in death
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed
largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
- in death
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For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
- in death
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Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or "broken heart," is excuse for cutting off one's life
while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent
death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
- in death
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
- in death
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
- in death
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Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for
death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all,
feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.
- in death
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e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of
life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the
basic anxiety of is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear
of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation.
- in death
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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous
inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn
that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
- in death
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Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The Carriage held but just Ourselves --
And Immortality.
- in death
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What is—"Paradise"—
Who live there—
Are they "Farmers"—
Do they "hoe"—
Do they know that this is "Amherst"—
And that I—am coming—too—
- in death
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Bereavement in their death to feel
Whom We have never seen—
A Vital Kinsmanship import
Our Soul and theirs—between—
- in death
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Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- in death
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Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
"Dissolve" says Death—The Spirit "Sir
I have another Trust"—
Death doubts it—Argues from the Ground—
The Spirit turns away
Just laying off for evidence
An Overcoat of Clay.
- in death
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And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
- in death
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Religion is a wizard, a sibyl . . .
She faces the wreck of worlds, and prophesies restoration.
She faces a sky blood-red with sunset colours that deepen into darkness, and prophesies dawn.
She faces death, and prophesies life.
- in death
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