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.
Lady Gregory -
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.
Caitlin Doughty -
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden -
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.
Zane Grey -
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.
Victor Hugo -
I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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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.
Eckhart Tolle -
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Joanne Rowling -
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
Edith Piaf -
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
Jack Kevorkian -
I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
Dan Harmon -
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields
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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 -
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber -
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
J. B. Priestley -
My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.
A. R. Rahman -
It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. Davies -
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
Samuel Foote
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What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
Mort Walker -
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson -
Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.
Kevin Eubanks -
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer