Charles Dickens Quotes, Death Quotes, Fire Quotes

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Death Quotes , Eye Quotes

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

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When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Death Quotes , Gone Quotes

Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

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Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sad Quotes , Death Quotes

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

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The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

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Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

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In his bleak mercy, Death forever strips The soul of light and memory, rendering blind Our vision, lest surmounted deeps appal, As when on mountain-heights a glance behind Betrays with knowledge, and the climber slips Down gulfs of fear to some enormous fall.

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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Death Quotes , Men Quotes

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.

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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Death Quotes , Lying Quotes