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Letter "D" » Death and dying
«Best while you have it use your breath - There is no drinking after death»
«Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind»
Author: Horace Mann
| About:
Death and dying,
Inspiration,
Mankind,
Victory
| Keywords:
mankind, won
«A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow»
«A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's»
«A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own»
«Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
carriage, carriages, held, immortality, kindlier, kindliest, kindly, stopped
«Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.»
Author: St. Jerome
| About:
Death and dying,
Elderly,
Friends,
War
| Keywords:
battlefield, engaged, seventy
«Be thou faithful unto death»
Author: Bible
| About:
Death and dying
«Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Birth,
Death and dying,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
aspects, deplore, deplored, deploring, pleased
«A rotten case abides no handling»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
abides, rotten
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