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  • The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

    Samuel Johnson, Robert ARMITAGE (1850). “Doctor Johnson: his religious life and his death. By the author of “Dr. Hookwell,” etc. [Robert Armitage].”, p.456
  • Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  • There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

    Running   Night   Fog  
  • The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

    Men   Mountain   Easy  
    c.1800 The Priest. 'The Brothers', l.182-3.
  • Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

  • The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

    David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”
  • The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.

  • In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

  • How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

    Will Durant (1991). “The Story of Philosophy”, p.423, Simon and Schuster
  • Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.92, Transaction Publishers
  • True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

    Love   Pay   Easy  
    "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal, Fragments, sec. 46, 1822.
  • Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and friendship difficult; and finally it is shadowed by thoughts of death.

    Adventure   Soul   Age  
    "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
  • Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

    Death   Thinking   Bears  
    Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.
  • We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.

    Death   Views   Long  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”
  • I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

    Mind   Negative   States  
  • It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.

    Death   Men   Thinking  
    William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library
  • The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

    Positive   Music   Death  
    Title of song (1927)
  • A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

    Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”
  • She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

    Hans Christian Andersen (1999). “Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen”, p.67, Oxford University Press, USA
  • One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

  • To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

    "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.
  • Bonhoeffer thought of death as the last station on the road to freedom.

    Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.358, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.

  • She thought of death like the seam of a hem: each time you lose someone close, it unraveled a little. You could still go along with your life, but you'd be forever tripping over something you previously took for granted.

    Forever   Hem   Littles  
    Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.721, Simon and Schuster
  • So love the thought of death, love it.

  • People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.

    Death   Thinking   People  
    Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage
  • Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30
  • It is with a rush of home-sickness that the thought of death presents itself.... Such sentiment is the eternal stock of all religions, modified indeed by changes of time and place, but indestructible, because its root is so deep in the earth of man's nature. The breath of religious initiators passes over them; a few "rise up with wings as eagles" [Isaiah 40:31], but the broad level of religious life is not permanently changed. Religious progress, like all purely spiritual progress, is confined to a few.

  • Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

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