Source: Closing of the American Mind
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“Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.”
Source: SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, Leonardo da Vinci…
“We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.”
“You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.”
Source: Afterthoughts
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.”
Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life
“Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
“It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre
“Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.”
Source: My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”