"Death is a distant rumor to the young."

Rooney, Andy on death
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"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."

Young, Edward on death   

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

Broun, Heywood on atheism
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"When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet."

Sterne, Laurence on atheism   

"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."

Swift, Jonathan on heaven
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Jefferson, Thomas on brevity
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"Our last garment is made without pockets."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."

Plutarch on death   

"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."

Renard, Jules on heaven   

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork"

Bible on heaven   

"The best thinking has been done in solitude."

Edison, Thomas A. on solitude
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"Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep"

Mohammed on heaven   

"Still waters run deep."

Proverb, English on silence
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"Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine."

Gallagher, Robert C. on change
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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

Baldwin, James on change
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"There is no sanctuary of virtue like home."

Everett, Edward on home
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"Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings."

Child, Lydia M. on home
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"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."

Cervantes, Miguel De on home   

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

La Bruyere, Jean De on death
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"Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on innocence   

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

McLaughlin, Mignon on innocence   

"The temperate person's pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent."

Unknown, Source on innocence   

"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."

Pound, Ezra on death
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

Proust, Marcel on death
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on death
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on death
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"We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death."

Proverb on death
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"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Bacharach, Burt on words
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"The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever."

Updike, John on innocence   

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort."

Bachelard, Gaston on past   

"If you would live innocently, seek solitude."

Syrus, Publilius on innocence
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"It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem."

Adler, Jerry on ecology
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"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."

Camus, Albert on modern and modernism
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"In His will is our peace."

Dante Alighieri on god
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"The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!"

Asch, Sholem on spirituality   

"The ink of the scholar and the blood of a martyr are of equal value in heaven."

Koran, The on heaven