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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world.
Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.
...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.
Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?
We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death.
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release
Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.
Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.
Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.
So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.
The end comes, no matter what. The only thing that matters is, how do you want to go out, on your feet or on your knees?
Hillary Clinton has held vast dreams. She was inspired at a young age that society does well when women and children do.
I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
Out of Berklee Dream Theater was born and we've been together ever since. I didn't have to taste that feeling of defeat.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.
From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.