Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Life Quotes, Death Quotes

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

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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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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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He would make a lovely corpse.

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So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages.

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Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death; Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air.

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O weep for Adonis - He is dead." "Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

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We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.

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It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

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I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.

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Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

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