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“If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.”

Ifs Years Body Earth Death Billions Near Death Near Death Experience

Author:Di Morrissey

“Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.”

Soul Earth Death Dark Dying Movement Eternal Idle Workshops Fermentation

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.”

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over me--O for this quiet--it will be my first.”

Feels Firsts I Can Earth Death Growing Cold Quiet Graves Thank God Daisies

Author:John Keats

“Oh the grave!--the grave!--It buries every error--covers every defect--extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies mouldering before him!”

Feels Should Looks Earth Death Lying Poor Enemy Regret Spring Errors Graves Peaceful Resentment Defects Handful Bosoms Recollection

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)

“Far happier he, who, young and full of pride And radiant with the glory of the sun, Leaves earth before his singing time is done. All wounds of Time the graveyard flowers hide, His beauty lives, as fresh as when he died.”

Done Earth Young Death Sun Flower Pride Singing Glory Died Wounds Radiant Graveyard Beauty Of Life

Author:Kobo Abe

“O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.”

Men Earth Death Fall Voice Sleep Silence Gold Noise Beloved Curse Strife Dreary Wailing

Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.”

Light Seems Earth Death Certain Heaven Hours Dark Approach Leaving Dark Hours

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.”

Men Firsts Soul Earth Death Dies Heaven Mets Strikes Arguing Innocent God Love Adam Righteous Murderer Hypocrite Cain Displeasure Abel

Book:Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

Source: Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

“The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.”

Home Age Earth Lasts Death Universe Duty Breaths This Life Remembered Regions Coming Of Age Infinity Splendor Apprenticeship

Book:Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

Source: Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life

“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.”

Ifs Way Children Sometimes Play Action Earth Death Serious Huge Stones Structure Profound Significant Graves Concrete Another Way

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“How happily, how happily, the flowers die away! / Oh! Could we but return to earth as easily as they.”

Earth Death Dies Flower Return

Book:The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses

Source: The birth-day; a poem: to which are added, occasional verses