Death Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

9 Death quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Buck’s global outlook and compassionate storytelling appear in these brief musings on death. The collection offers a succinct look at how she blends cultural nuance with the universal experience of loss.

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Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

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We must have hope or starve to death.

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Life is stronger than death.

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“Oh, there is a loneliness which befalls me now and then and it is something more than death.”

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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life,…

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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of…

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Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I…

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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“Mind and body were well or ill together.”

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“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu”

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“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people…

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,…

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