T. S. Eliot Quotes About Death
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.
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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.
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It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
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It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
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