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Letter "D" » Death
«There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.»
Author: Alexandre Dumas
(Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Death,
Happiness,
Life,
Misery,
Revenge
| Keywords:
comparison, comparisons, enjoyments
«There's a clock on the wall and it's measuring downThe time you have left til you're dust on the groundThe people you love with the time that you've gotDetermine if you are rememebered or not v i v a l ' a m o u r»
Author: Christine Anderson
(Pianist, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Death,
Life,
Love,
Music,
Remembrance
«There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.»
«Those who have passed away must be in a happier state than those living. How we have been so self-centered as to think primarily in terms of the contrary.»
«There is nothing certain in a man?s life but that he must lose it.»
«There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this.»
«The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.»
«There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.»
«To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death....»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death
| Keywords:
adopt, deprive, frequent, strangeness
«Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.»
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