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Death Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- He [The Improved Man] will enjoy not only the sunshine of life, but will bear with fortitude the darkest days. He will have no fear…
- Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.'…
- The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not, I shall always…
- As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.
- Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.
- Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will;…
- I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.
- The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating…
- The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.
- There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;…
- Death is only perfect rest.
- We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
- In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
- I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
- In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
- As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
- They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and…
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- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
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- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden