Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski -
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
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I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.
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It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
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… they believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
