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“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

People Death Land Poet Honor Stranger Prophet Death And Dying Dying Death Near Death Stranger In A Strange Land Someone Who Is Dying

Author:Khalil Gibran

“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”

People Thinking Mind Country Death Dies Left Forget Growing Flower Honor Terrible Mourn Cotton

Author:Charles Bukowski

“The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.”

“Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.”

Men Death Lying Grows Honor Silent Envy Consumed After Death

Author:Ovid

“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

“As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.”

Believe Matter Death Dies Grace Honor Soldier Saving Willingness Saving Grace

Author:Leo Gordon

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

Art Death Artist Left Danger Honor Degrees Performances Fighter Afternoon Brilliance Bullfighting

Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.”

Death Fate Duty Honor Compromise Heroic Heroism Scorn Gauntlet

Book:Famous Speeches, Complete ...

Source: Famous Speeches, Complete ...

“Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.”

Death Dies Honor Thousand Ten Wounds Honour Honorable Honored

Author:Joseph Addison

“When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.”

Ifs Humans Death Lying Turns Father My Own Destiny Dying Divine Honor Weapons Lays Glad Thankfulness Fatigue My Destiny

Book:RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

Source: RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter

“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

Death Dying Honor Glory Cancer Illness Smallpox

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.”

“To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.”

Death Honor Sexuality Partners Loyalty Shoulders Stepsons

Book:Beyond Wizardwall

Source: Beyond Wizardwall