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“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.”

World Littles Soul Death Dies Secret Return All Things Sight Life And Death Retiring Reincarnation Incarnation Abode Beautiful Death

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Ifs Men Made Age Death Lying Grows Tree Fronts Return Spring Stones Remains Winter Fades Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]”

Death Dark Path Return Bourne

Author:Catullus

“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

“When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood.”

Mind May Death Wish Kindness Duty Return Thousand Understood Weakness Faults Excuse Favors Graves Impression Recompense Endearment

Book:The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.”

Soul Death Belief Lost Animal Tree Objects Broken Return Prison Reasonable Spells Trapped Inferiors Departed Celtic Quiver Inanimate Objects

Author:Marcel Proust

“This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.”

Life Today Form Death Magic Return Raised New Life Isis Doorways Live For Today Life Death Magic Words Osiris

Author:John L. Balderston

“The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.”

Country Death Return Traveler Long Love Be Or Not To Be Hamlet Revenge Hamlet Death

Author:William Shakespeare