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Abraham Isaac Kook

Death is an illusion; its ritual uncleanness is the symbol of falsehood. What people call death is the intensification and reinvigoration of life.

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Lucretius, fully Titus Lucretius Carus NULL

For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.

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Lucretius, fully Titus Lucretius Carus NULL

Even drops of water falling upon a stone in the long run wears a way through the stone.

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Thomas Mann, fully Paul Thomas Mann

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

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Lucan, full name Marcus Annaeus Lucanus NULL

How little nature demands. Running water and bread are enough for mankind.

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Lucretius, fully Titus Lucretius Carus NULL

Often for fear of death men are seized by a hatred of life, forgetting that this fear is the fountain of all care.

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Thomas Mann, fully Paul Thomas Mann

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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Felix Neff

When a pump is frequently used, the water pours out at the first stroke, because it is high; but, if the pump has not been used for a long time, the water gets low, and when you want it you must pump a long while; and the water comes only after great efforts. It is so with prayer. If we are instant in prayer, every little circumstance awakens the disposition to pray, and desire and words are always ready; but, if we neglect prayer, it is difficult for us to pray, for the water in the well gets low.

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Hugh Miller

Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

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Vladimir Nabokov, fully Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Death | Life | Life | Wisdom |

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Samuel Joseph May

A true philosopher makes death his common practice, while he lives, and every day by contemplation strives to separate the soul, far as he can, from off the body.

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William Morris

Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Those who give the first shock to a state are naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a going; he only troubles the water for another’s net.

Man | Public | Troubles | Wisdom |

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William Mountford

The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into “the valley of the shadow of death.” But faith is like the evening star, shining into our souls the more brightly, the deeper is the night of death in which they sink.

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Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is uncertain where death awaits us; let us await it everywhere. Premeditation of death is premeditation of freedom. He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. Knowing how to die frees us from all subjection and constraint. There is nothing evil in life for the man who has thoroughly grasped the fact that to be deprived of life is not an evil.

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