in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
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I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. The trouble is you won't fight. You've given up. But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe, turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you, if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupieth it.
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.