Quotes with death-beds

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  • Epictetus For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son, and father of death, which is its sister, mother, and daughter. And thus it is that in the depth of love there is a depth
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Ernest Becker For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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  • Bhagavad Gita For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Shakespeare For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Dylan For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Susan Sontag For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Caitlin Doughty For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Beilby Porteus Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes, I woo thee, Death! Life and its joys I leave to those that prize them. Hear me, 0 gracious God! At Thy good time let Death approach; I reck not, let him but come in genuine form, not with Thy vengeance armed, too much for man to bear.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Desmond Tutu Goodness is stronger than evil; love is stronger than hate; light is stronger than darkness; life is stronger than death; victory is ours through him who loved us.
    Speech 23-10-1998
    Desmond Tutu
    South African cleric and human rights activist (1931 - 2021)
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  • John Ruskin Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Angela Davis Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 129
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Horace He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Hector Hugh Munro He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • William Shakespeare He that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ben Jonson He that fears death, or mourns it, in the just,
    Shows of the resurrection little trust.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio XXXIV, Of Death, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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