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“Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.”

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Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

“I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.”

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.”

Two Death Sound Thunder Formidable

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don't understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the importance of clarifying the matter of birth and death. The third undeniable reality is that all of the thoughts and feelings that arise in my head simply arise haphazardly, by chance. And the conclusion we can derive from that is not to hold on to all that comes up in our head. That is what we are doing when we sit zazen.”

Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice

“Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.”

Men Life Two Death Honor Remains Woe Life Death Two Lives

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.”

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Author:Giovanni Battista Morgagni

“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”

Men Believe Two Death Faith Dying Loneliness Solitude Every Man Two Things Death And Dying Being Alone Dying Death Loneliness And Solitude Standing Alone Funerals And Death Dying Alone

Author:Martin Luther

“Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.”

Two Moving Death Birth Birth And Death

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

Two Light Death Common Existence Darkness Rocks Dying Eternity Positive Atheism Common Sense Existentialism Cracks Abyss Cradle

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.”

Two Death Three Husband Tough Grandmother Buried My Grandmother Naps Old Jokes Grand Mother Tough Women

Author:Rita Rudner

“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 am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.”

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Book:White Noise

Source: White Noise

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

Life Two Different States Wisdom Spiritual Death Birth Aspect Birth And Death

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”

“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.”

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Book:To My Husband and Other Poems

Source: To My Husband and Other Poems

“Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?”

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Author:Leo Buscaglia

“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”

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Book:Animals and why They Matter

Source: Animals and why They Matter

“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”

Men Two Death Evil Justice Imagine Century Judging Judgment Accidents Foolish Imagine That Delayed Evil Things Foolish Man

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

Life Two Death Choices Dying Busy Live Life Life And Death Two Choices

Author:Stephen King

“Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.”

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Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.”

Believe Long Two Death Taxes Standards Inevitability

Author:Erwin Griswold

“The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.”

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Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.”

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Author:Kevin Welch

“Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.”

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.”

Life Needs Two Science Death Certain Dies Example Creatures Divides Fades Living Creatures Fade Away Amoeba

Author:George Wald

“You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'”

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Author:Morgan Freeman

“O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!”

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Book:The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon

Source: The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon