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“Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.”

God Death Stars Dying Shooting Star Shooting Stars

Book:The Little Match Girl

Source: The Little Match Girl

“[S]he made haste to light the whole bundle of matches, for she wished to keep her grandmother there. And the matches glowed with a light that was brighter than the noon-day, and her grandmother had never appeared so large or so beautiful. She took the little girl in her arms, and they both flew upwards in brightness and joy far above the earth, where there was neither cold nor hunger nor pain, for they were with God.”

God Pain Death Family Cold Grandparents Grandmothers

Book:The Little Match Girl

Source: The Little Match Girl

“Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;”

God Death Acceptance Mourning God S Will

Book:The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

Source: The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

“No death is sweeter than this, and no rose redder than the blood that flows.”

Death Blood Rose

Book:The Loveliest Rose in the World

Source: The Loveliest Rose in the World

“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”

Book:The Story of a Mother

Source: The Story of a Mother

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”

Life Death Time Enjoy Life Carpe Diem Misattributed

Author:Hans Christian Andersen

“In the dawn of morning there lay the poor little one, with pale cheeks and smiling mouth, leaning against the wall; she had been frozen to death on the last evening of the year . . . No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, nor into what glory she had entered with her grandmother, on New-year’s day.”

Death New Years Eve New Years Day

Book:The Little Match Girl

Source: The Little Match Girl

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