Six Quotes About Death by Owen ..... Quotes, Aphorisms and Proverbs
Date: 7/17/2004 2:24:45 PM ( 20 y ago)
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"It is impossible that anything so
natural, so necessary, and so
universal as death, should ever have
been designed as an evil to mankind."
--Jonathan Swift --
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"We are rather like a plastic bag
of seawater sinking into the
fathomless depths of some infinite
ocean. At the moment of death, or
'ego-death,' the plastic bag, by
which we maintained all sense of our
separate existence, suddenly
disintegrates and disappears, leaving no trace. The water we
identified as our 'self' may appear
lost -- or the whole of the warm and
boundless sea may be seen as gained."
-- Keith Floyd -- (this is Keith
Floyd, the philosopher from Carolina, not the popular travel writer).
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"Life is a great surprise. I do not
see why death should not be an even
greater one."
-- Vladimir Nabokov --
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"Nobody knows, in fact, what death is; nor whether to man, it is not
perchance the greatest of all blessings. Yet people fear death as
if they surely knew it to be the
worst of evils."
-- Socrates (in) Plato's APOLOGY --
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"Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth."
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell / THE MEASURE OF MY DAYS --
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"Death is nothing else but a butterfly coming out of a cocoon.
That's what death is all about."
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross --
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