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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

“Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

World Death Secret This World Strange Folly

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”

Knows Death Secret Knowing Doors Listening Surface Mediums Tension Gossip Glimpse Toilets Crude Rumours Untrustworthy Membranes Reverberation

Author:China Mieville

“To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!”

Form Death Space Secret Overcoming Eternity Perceive Void

Book:What is Zen?

Source: What is Zen?

“Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration--the secret alembics of vitality.”

Ends Form Death Secret Crisis Mask Transition Decay Vitality Regeneration

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.”

Ifs Life Humans Death Evil Pleasure Secret Meditation Effects Reflection Intense Miserable Human Life Intimate Life Death Poisoning Rendering Miserable Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”

Death Secret Birth Philosophical

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)