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Letter "D" » Death and dying
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«Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives»
«This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Dancing,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
clowns, dance of death, wretched, wretchedness
«The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing»
«The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter»
«To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.»
Author: Vauvenargues, Marquis de
| About:
Death and dying
«Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.»
«The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Time,
Work
| Keywords:
approaching, rush, treble, trebles
«To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Ideas
| Keywords:
nobler, To Die For, unquestionably
«Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
embroider, embroidered, embroiders, monument, plain clothes, suit of clothes
«This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
arrest, sergeant, strict
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