Quotes with life-bearing

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  • David Hume Custom is the great guide to human life.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • David Hume Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Havelock Ellis Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Confucius Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • John Fletcher Death hath so many doors to let out life.
    The customs of the country
    John Fletcher
    English playwright (1579 - 1625)
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  • Jim Jones Death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life
    Jim Jones
    American cult leader (1931 - 1978)
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  • Paul Theroux Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Aeschylus Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Norman Cousins Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
    Good Housekeeping November 1989, p. 92
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Merton Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • George Eliot 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
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • N. Rowe Death is the privilige of human nature and life without it were not worth our taking.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bell Hooks Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Hannah Arendt Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Billie Whitelaw Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
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