Quotes with death-beds

Quotes 681 till 688 of 688.

  • Elias Canetti He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • William Blake Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Denis Diderot People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Bhagavad Gita There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Elias Canetti There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • J. P. Donleavy When you don't have any money, the problem is food, When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, its. It's health, If everything is simple, then you're frightened of death.
    J. P. Donleavy
    Irish/American novelist and playwright (1926 - 2017)
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