Ovid Quotes, Death Quotes, Law Quotes

We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]

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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

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

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From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a great runner, you cannot run away from death. you cannot stop death with your wealth, through your magic performances or recitation of mantras or even medicines. Therefore, it is wise to prepare for your death.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Death Quotes , Wise Quotes

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

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O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Wall Quotes

They never fail who die in a great cause.

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Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

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In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Death Quotes , Art Quotes

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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Death 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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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Death Quotes , Running Quotes

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

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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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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Death Quotes

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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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Death Quotes , Mother Quotes

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Death Quotes , Sleep 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