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“Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.”

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Anne Shropshire, born in the United States in 1917, was an accomplished actress known for her performances in film and television over several decades. more

“To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Wells May Happens Death Evil Fear Wise Dying Ignorance My Friends Fear Of Death Being Wise Shameful Do Not Fear Death

Author:Socrates

“For the dead there are no more toils.”

Death Dying Comfort Sympathy Toil

Book:Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

Source: Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

“To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.”

“Take the goods the gods provide, and don't stand and sulk when they are snatched away.”

Death Dying Goods Impermanence God Provides

Author:Mary McMullen

“Life is uncertain; death is certain.”

Life Is Death Certain Dying Uncertain

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Here will I live in the rainy season, here in the autumn and in the summer: thus muses the fool. He realizes not the danger (of death).”

Death Realizing Dying Danger Fool Summer Seasons Autumn Muse Rainy Rainy Season

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”

People Way Philosophy Seems Death Realizing Dying Ordinary Philosopher Preparing Right Way Ordinary People Accord Deep Life

Author:Socrates

“I feel like tiny bird with a big song!”

Feels Bigs Song Bird Tiny

Author:Jerry Van Amerongen

“O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.”

Ifs Knows Men May Soul Hands Young Suffering Heaven Justice Youth Karma Young Man Fancy Life And Death God Knows Neglected Succession

Book:Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

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