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“ Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave. ”
Pericles
People
People connected with this theme.
Aurelius Marcus
121 – 180 Philosophy
Dickinson Emily
1830 – 1886 Poetry
Epicurus
-341 – -270 Philosophy
Heidegger Martin
1889 – 1976 Philosophy
Montaigne
1533 – 1592 Philosophy
Poe Edgar
1809 – 1849 Poetry
Seneca
-4 – 65 Philosophy
Thomas Dylan
1914 – 1953 Poetry
Tolstoy Leo
1828 – 1910 Literature
Unamuno
1864 – 1936 PoetryQuotes
Selected words connected with this theme.
Quote
“Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
Aurelius Marcus
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“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
Shaw Bernard
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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
”
Voltaire
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“No mortal man is wise at all moments.
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Gaius Plinius
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“To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
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Baudelaire
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“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
Schopenhauer
Counsels and Maxims
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“And die of nothing but from rage to live.
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Pope, Alexander
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“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”
Cicero
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“I'm gonna live untill I die.”
Sinatra Frank
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“When you stop growing you start dying.”
Burroughs W.
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“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves”
Crevel Rene
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“He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels.”
Michaux Henri
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“As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.”
Lorca Federico
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“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”
Gibran Khalil
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“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.”
Toulouse
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“Immortal spirit of antiquity,<br>
Father of the true, beautiful and good,<br>
Descend, appear, shed over us thy light<br>
Upon this ground and under this sky
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Palamas Kostis
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“Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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Nabokov
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“Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
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Munch Edvard
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“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die”
Bataille
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“Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.”
Noonuccal
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“It is the dignity with which one goes to his death that is remembered by all,
What of life, it comes and goes.
”
Faiz Ahmad
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“We have only one recourse in the face of death: make art before it happens.”
Depestre Rene
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“To mean something, once, Then death.”
Anwar Chairil
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“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
Levi Primo
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“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
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Galeano
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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
Faulkner William
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“Oh, privileged mortal
you enjoy lifelong
honor and perfect ease!”
Zamudio Adela
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“Glory to those with souls devoid of fear,
Who for the people's cause did bravely die…”
Tabidze Galaktion
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“To live is to die.
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Sucre Ramos
Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
On the Terrors of Death
Seneca
1. Keep on as you have begun, and make all possible haste, so that you may have longer enjoyment of an improved mind, one that is at peace with itself. Doubtless you will derive enjoyment during the time when you are i …
Mrs Dalloway
Woolf Virginia · 1925
Selected excerpt
Chapter 1
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clar …
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tolstoy Leo · 1886
(2 selected excerpts)
What tormented him most was the deception, the lie, which for some reason everyone had accepted: that he was not dying, but was merely ill, and that if he would only keep quiet and undergo the tr …
Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
GOD FORSAKES ANTONY
Cavafy
When suddenly, at midnight, you hear
an invisible procession going by
with exquisite music, voices,
don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now,
work gone wrong, your plans
all proving deceptive—don’t mourn them useles …
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Dickinson Emily · 1862
Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves —
And Immortality.
We slowly drove — He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His …
The Raven
Poe Edgar · 1845
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, ra …
A Clear Midnight
Whitman Walt
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,
Night, sle …
Do not go gentle into that good night
Thomas Dylan
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no l …
The Tragic Sense of Life
Unamuno · 1913
excerpt from chapter 3- The Hunger of Immortality
It is impossible for us, in effect, to conceive of ourselves as not existing, and no effort is capable of enabling consciousness to realize absolute unconsciousness, i …
Enemy of Death
Quasimodo · 1946
(For Rossana Sironi)
Dear one, you should not have
ripped out your image,
taken from us, from the world,
a portion of beauty.
What can we do,
we enemies of death,
bent to your feet of rose,
your breast of viole …
And death shall have no dominion
Thomas Dylan
And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
…
Lament for the death of Ignacio..
Lorca
Lament for the Death of Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
Up the bleachers goes Ignacio
with death on his shoulders.
He looks for dawn
and it isn’t dawn.
He looks for his sensible profile
and sleep confuses him.
He looks f …
Elegy Before Death
Milley Edna · 1921
There will be rose and rhododendron
When you are dead and under ground;
Still will be heard from white syringas
Heavy with bees, a sunny sound;
Still will the tamaracks be raining
After the rain has ceased, and stil …
Los trabajos perdidos
Mutis Álvaro · 1965
Each poem a bird fleeing
the place marked out by the plague.
Each poem a garment of death
through flooded streets and squares,
drenched in the lethal wax of the defeated.
Each poem a step toward death,
a counterf …
Edge
Plath Sylvia
The woman is perfected.
Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusion of a Greek necessity
Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her bare Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.
Each de …
The day I've died
Rumi Jalaluddin
The day I've died, my pall is moving on –
But do not think my heart is still on earth!
Don't weep and pity me:
"Oh woe, how awful!
You fall in devil's snare –"
woe, that is awful!
Don't cry "Woe, parted!" at my bur …