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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess.
Quote by -Epictetus
“endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
“endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death.”
Quote by -Frederick Douglass
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
Quote by -Hilaire Belloc
“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
Quote by -Isabel Allende
Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
A brief existence is common to all things, and yet you avoid and pursue all things as if they would be eternal.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Death and pain are not frightening, it’s the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, ‘Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.’
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
On the occasion of every act ask yourself, “How is this with respect to me? Will I regret it? A little time and I am dead, and all is gone”.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Speaking for myself, I hope death overtakes me when I’m occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted and unrestrained.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able – be good.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
When somebody’s wife or child dies, to a man we all routinely say, ‘Well, that’s part of life.’ But if one of our own family is involved, then right away it’s ‘Poor, poor me!’ We would do better to remember how we react when a similar loss afflicts others.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Every part of me then will be reduced by change into some part of the universe, and that again will change into another part of the universe, and so on forever.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Since it is possible that you might depart from life this very moment, regulate every act and thought accordingly.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
How quickly things disappear: in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the memory of them.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Whether it is a dispersion, or a resolution into atoms, or annihilation, it is either extinction or change.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Finally, waiting for death with a cheerful mind, as being nothing else than a dissolution of the elements of which every living being is compounded. But if there is no harm to the elements themselves in each continually changing into another, why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Death is necessary and cannot be avoided. I mean, where am I going to go to get away from it?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
One thing I know: all the works of mortal man lie under sentence of mortality; we live among things that are destined to perish.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Because we’re the only animals who not only die but are conscious of it even while it happens, we are beset by anxiety.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
This, then, is consistent with the character of a reflecting man, to be neither careless nor impatient nor contemptuous with respect to death, but to wait for it as one of the operations of nature.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Death is not an evil. What is it then? The one law mankind has that is free of all discrimination.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
(A tough one) There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”
Quote by -Thomas Sowell
I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.
Quote by -Tom Brokaw
“A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?”
Quote by -William Wordsworth
“To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; it is to think that one knows what one does not know. No one knows with regard to death wheather it is not really the greatest blessing that can happen to man; but people dread it as though they were certain it is the greatest evil." -The Last Days of Socrates”
Quote by -Plato
“The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.”
Quote by -Noam Chomsky
“I feel it urgent to state that, if the family is the sanctuary of life, the place where life is conceived and cared for, it is a horrendous contradiction when it becomes a place where life is rejected and destroyed. So great is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother’s womb, that no alleged right to one’s own body can justify a decision to terminate that life, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the “property” of another human being. The family protects human life in all its stages, including its last. Consequently, “those who work in healthcare facilities are reminded of the moral duty of conscientious objection. Similarly, the Church not only feels the urgency to assert the right to a natural death, without aggressive treatment and euthanasia”, but likewise firmly rejects the death penalty.”
Quote by -Pope Francis