Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Death Quotes, Punishment Quotes

SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.

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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

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Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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Tired with all these, for restful death I cry.

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O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!

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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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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

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No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

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Death is the last limit of all things.

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My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

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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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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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

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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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