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Letter "D" » Death and dying
«Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death»
«Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.»
Author: Saul Alinsky
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
all of a sudden, cause of death, of a sudden, promote, promotes, so far, sudden, sudden death, tactically
«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Art,
Danger,
Death and dying,
Fear,
Life,
Society,
Violence
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Bad art, brutish, continual, letters, nastier, nastiest, nasty, short letter, solitary, violent, violent death
«Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
tire, watching
«No man knows when his hour will come; As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them»
«No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.»
«One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Death and dying
| Keywords:
Odysseus, parted
«Old men go to death; but death comes to young men»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Death and dying
«No use in flogging a dead horse»
«No young man believes he shall ever die»
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