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Letter "D" » Death and dying
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«Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.»
Author: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
battle cry, Let It Be, reaches, receptive, take up
«When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover»
Author: Michael Drayton
| About:
Death and dying,
Faith,
Innocence,
Life
| Keywords:
closing, kneeling, recover
«We die only once, and for such a long time.»
«We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death»
Author: Theodor Reik
(Author, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
for dear life, fugitive, fugitives, that is to say, The Fugitives
«What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.»
Author: Bruce Barton
(Congressman)
| About:
Death and dying,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Slavery,
World
| Keywords:
bondage, phenomenon, To Die For
«When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
clutched, clutches, clutching, dies, die away, lifetime
«When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
reconciler, repent, severity, tenderness
«We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.»
Author: Thomas Browne, Sr.
| About:
Death and dying
«We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
cracked, flawed, glass window, glaze, glazed, glazing
«We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
Dr., Dr, hall, his mother, mourning
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