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Death itself
«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
Author: John Donne
| Keywords:
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«[About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as a war than an adventure. Susan thrived best in the presence of an adversary. ... You learned that you were not her adversary if she'd chosen you as a friend. She taught me as a friend the strength of dealing with adversity. Her last adversary was the struggle with death itself.»
Author: Michael Silverblatt
(Host)
| Keywords:
adversary, Death itself, Sontag, Susan, Susan Sontag, thrived
«I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
Back to Earth, come back, Death itself, deceitful, dim, dimmed, dims, every year, expire, expires, expiring, glow, handful, heat, lured, lures, luring, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, perils, The Glow, too soon, triumphant
«Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.»
Author: Pope John Paul II
(Pope)
| About:
Humanity,
War
| Keywords:
absurd, Death itself, once more, phenomenon, prevented, table, unfair
«Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
calamity, Death itself, doubts, do away with, feared, omen, omens, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, superstitious
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
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«Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abolish, abolishes, abolishing, accumulation, accumulations, city, Creation, Death itself, destroys, horror, ideal, mere, million, multiply, One In A Million, parasite, rear, rearing, rears, swelled, swell up, swollen, throws
«Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,And look on death itself!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
counterfeit, counterfeiting, Death itself, downy, look on, shake, shake off
