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“We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.”

Ifs Remember Death Life Death Where We Came

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.”

Way Might Remember Death Fear Of Death

Book:The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers

“The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.”

People Ends Hard Remember Death Sides Imagination Worst Effects Goes On Speech Argument Debate Censorship Insidious

Author:Salman Rushdie

“About the presence of death and dying I don't remember the society in the 1950s being so skittish as it has since become. People still died at home, among relatives and friends, often in the care of a family physician. Death was still to be seen sitting in the parlor, hanging in a butcher shop, sometimes lying in the street.”

People Stills Sometimes Home Care Remember Death Lying Streets Dying Sitting Died Shops Death And Dying Physicians Butchers Parlor Relatives And Friends

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.”

Ifs Want Life Age Remember Death Remembered Insanity Doing Nothing Life Death Eulogy Remember Me

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”

Thinking Remember Death Mother Father House Rooms Our Father Think Of You Departed

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.”

Use Remember Death Evil Clear Ready Ought Conviction Appearance Inevitable Avoided

Book:The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.”

Humans Remember Death Human Beings Species Fault In Our Stars

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.”

Men Years Remember Death Used Watches Morning Sick Sick Man

Book:Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.”

“When the veil of death has been drawn between us and the objects of our regard, how quick-sighted do we become to their merits, and how bitterly do we remember words, or even looks, of unkindness which may have escaped in our intercourse with them.”

Looks May Has Beens Remember Death Objects Regard Merit Veils Intercourse Unkindness

Author:Reginald Heber

“With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.”

World Matter Pain Remember Death Found Easy

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“You know all my life I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap.”

People Knows Way Remember Death Bother Hated Funeral Spoil Sap

Author:Jules Furthman

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

Source: This Business of Living

“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

Source: Education and the Social Order

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”

Source: East of Eden

“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.”

Doe Stories Remember Death Literature Felt Decided Holocaust Betray Survived Betrayed

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

“When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.”

Remember Death Song Dies Turns Music Inspirational Music Sheffield

Book:Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

World Remember Death Dies Causes Memories Died Novelists Timeless Remembrance Ripple Discworld Reaper Vetinari

Book:Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)

Source: Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)

“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”

States Remember Death Memories Bitter Curse Dread Nothingness Uncanny

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.”

Ifs I Can Age Remember Death Birth Frightened

Author:Peter Ustinov

“If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Might Remember Death Lost Forget Sad Losing Died Lawyer Remembered Grieving Reminding Great Gifts Losing A Loved One Life Is A Gift Losing A Child

Author:Elizabeth Edwards

“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”

Years Age Remember Death Left Grows Morning Sun Aging Old Age Weary Remembrance Memorial Veterans Day Poems Remembrance Day Lest We Forget Gallipoli Growing Weary

Author:Laurence Binyon

“We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?”

Love Feels Looks Remember Death Left Sun Dying Rain Uplifting Memorial Saying Goodbye Memorial Day Memorial Day Remembrance Remember Memorial Day Sun And Rain

Book:Collected poems, 1905-1925

Source: Collected poems, 1905-1925

“Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.”

Men Remember Death Dying He Man Late Too Late Funeral Great Friend

Author:Ian Bannen