Wise Quotes
We are afraid of everything, as mortals should be, and we want everything, as if we had been awarded immortality.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Immortality consists of working on something eternal.
Ernst Joseph Renan
One of the features of youth is the conviction that you are immortal, and not in some unreal, abstract sense, but that you will literally never die!
Yuri Olesha
The dead are alive as long as there are living ones to remember them. E. Henriot
The life of great people begins from the moment of their death. J. Arrea
It’s not death that’s scary—it’s that it always comes ahead of time. S. P. Borodin
We should not be afraid of death, but of empty life. B. Brecht
The fear of death is worse than death itself. D. Bruno
Mental pleasures lengthen life just as much as sensual pleasures shorten it. P. Buast
Oblivion is the second death, which great natures fear more than the first. S. Bouffler
The living should be treated favorably, but only the truth should be spoken about the dead. F. Voltaire
Some dead people rest in peace, others are deprived of it. B. Galdos
Those who die leave behind their good deeds and take with them their sins. L. Guevara
To live without benefit is an untimely death. I. Goethe
You can be afraid of death or not - it will come inevitably. I. Goethe
What has died as reality is alive as edification. V. Hugo
Our hope for immortality is not generated by any of the existing religions; on the contrary, almost all religions are born of this hope. R. Ingersoll
Happy is he who died having lived his life blamelessly. Cato
Death comes once, but we wait for it all our lives: the fear of death is more painful than death itself. J. Labruyère
If some of us died and others did not, it would be extremely annoying to die. J. Labruyère
Anxiety, fear, despondency do not relieve death, but, on the contrary, accelerate it; nevertheless, I believe that excessive gaiety is also unbecoming to people, since they are mortal. J. Labruyère
From the point of view of mercy, death is good because it puts an end to old age. J. Labruyère
We are afraid of everything, as mortals should be, and we want everything, as if we had been awarded immortality. F. La Rochefoucauld
Just as a day well spent brings easy sleep, a life well lived brings easy death. Leonardo da Vinci
Better death than fatigue. Leonardo da Vinci
The young may die, the old must. G. Longfellow
Death is a great peacemaker. A. Manzoni
The death of heroes is like the sunset. K. Marx
The traditions of all dead generations loom like a nightmare over the minds of the living. K. Marx
Crying because we won't be alive a hundred years from now is just as crazy as crying because we weren't alive a hundred years ago. M. Montaigne
Neither what precedes death nor what follows it belongs to it. M. Montaigne
Sooner or later we will arrive at the same harbor. Ovid
It is easier to die without thinking about death than to think about it, even when it does not threaten. B. Pascal
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Short stories about life and death...
1. “The Window” (Jane Orvis) Ever since Rita was brutally murdered, Carter has been sitting by the window. No TV, reading, correspondence. His life is what is seen through the curtains. He doesn't care who brings the food, who pays the bills, he doesn't leave the room. His life consists of passing athletes, the change of seasons, passing cars, the ghost of Rita. Carter does not understand that there are no windows in the felt-lined chambers...
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“The Proposal” ( Larissa Kirkland) Starry Night.
It's the right time. Romantic dinner. Cozy Italian restaurant. Little black dress. Luxurious hair, sparkling eyes, silvery laughter. We've been together for two years. Wonderful time! True love, best friend, no one else. Champagne! I offer my hand and heart. On one knee. Are people watching? Well, let! Beautiful diamond ring. Blush on the cheeks, charming smile. How, no?! ————————————————————- 3. “Ghost” ( Charles Enright) As soon as this happened, I hurried home to tell my wife the sad news. But she didn't seem to listen to me at all. She didn't notice me at all. She looked right through me and poured herself a drink. She turned on the TV. At that moment the phone rang. She walked over and picked up the phone. I saw her face wrinkle. She cried bitterly. This was the day I died...
————————————————————- 4. “Gratitude” ( Andrew E. Hunt) The wool blanket he had recently been given from a charity hugged his shoulders comfortably, and his boots , which he found in the trash today, did not sting at all. The street lights warmed his soul so pleasantly after all this chilling darkness... The curve of the park bench seemed so familiar to his tired old back. “Thank you, Lord,” he thought, “life is simply amazing!”
————————————————————- 5. “What the Devil Wants” ( Brian Newell) The two boys stood and watched Satan slowly walk away. The sparkle of his hypnotic eyes still clouded their heads. - Listen, what did he want from you? - My soul. And from you? — A coin for a pay phone. He urgently needed to call. - Do you want us to go eat? - I want to, but now I have no money at all. - It's OK. I have plenty.
————————————————————- 6. “Bad Luck” ( Alan E. Mayer) I woke up with severe pain throughout my body. I opened my eyes and saw a nurse standing by my bed. “Mr. Fujima,” she said, “you were lucky to survive the bombing of Hiroshima two days ago.” But now you are in the hospital, you are no longer in danger. A little alive from weakness, I asked: “Where am I?” “To Nagasaki,” she answered.
————————————————————- 7. “Destiny” ( Jay Rip) There was only one way out, for our lives were intertwined in too tangled a knot of anger and bliss to solve everything some other way. Let's trust the lot: heads - and we will get married, tails - and we will part forever. The coin was tossed. She tinkled, spun and stopped. Eagle. We stared at her in bewilderment. Then, with one voice, we said, “Maybe one more time?”
————————————————————- 8. “In Search of Truth” ( Robert Tompkins) Finally, in this remote, secluded village, his search ended. Truth sat in a dilapidated hut by the fire. He had never seen an older, uglier woman. - Are you - Really? The old, wizened hag nodded solemnly. - Tell me, what should I tell the world? What message to convey? The old woman spat into the fire and answered: “Tell them that I am young and beautiful!”
9. I want to report an accident (Martha Jara)
“Celia, it’s all your fault. You will find my swollen body in the pool. Goodbye. Umberto."
She came out of the house, holding a note in her hand, and saw me lying face down in the water, looking like
a giant fly caught in the jam.
When she rushed to save me and remembered that she couldn’t swim, I got out of the water...
10. Hide and Seek (Phil Nash, Joe Hubble)
- Ninety-nine, one hundred! Ready or not, here I come!
I hate driving, but for me it's much easier than hiding. Entering a dark room, I whisper to those who are hiding inside: “They hit and hit!”
They follow me along the long corridor with their gaze, and in the mirrors hanging on the walls my figure in a black cassock and with a scythe in his hands is reflected...
Quotes of great men
Those who lose heart die before their time. Omar Khayyam
A person dies, the matter remains. Lucretius
Death is just a transition from one life to another, a change from old clothes to new ones.
"Bhagavad-Gita" People die only for what is worth living for.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Each person individually is mortal, but humanity as a whole is immortal.
Apuleius Although we are mortal, we should not submit to corruptible things, but, as far as possible, rise to immortality and live in accordance with what is best in us.
Aristotle
We feel and know that we are immortal.
Benedict Spinoza
A free person thinks about nothing so little as death, and his wisdom consists in thinking about life, and not about death.
Benedict Spinoza
We should not be afraid of death, but of empty life.
Bertolt Brecht
Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It relentlessly ponders death and relentlessly creates life.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
It’s amazing how beauty and death, joy and decay are necessary for each other and condition each other.
Hermann Hesse
For a highly organized mind, death is just an adventure.
Joanne Rowling
The fear of death is worse than death itself. After all, anyone who is afraid to suffer suffers from fear.
Giordano Bruno
Against the dark background that death creates, the delicate colors of life sparkle in all their purity.
George Santayana
Each is given the opportunity to go from peak to peak and cooperate with nature in achieving the obvious purpose of life. The spiritual “I” of a person moves in eternity like a pendulum swinging between the periods of life and death. This “I” is the actor, and his many incarnations are the roles he plays.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
To live without benefit is an untimely death.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Anyone who does not believe in the Hereafter is dead to this life.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The fear of death is of great importance in our inner experience: it haunts us like nothing else, constantly reminding us of itself with a certain “underground roar”, like a dormant volcano. It is a dark, disturbing presence lurking at the edge of consciousness.
Irwin Yalam
The hardest thing to erase are memories
- The more time passes, the longer I live without you. And it's terrible.
- I still have countless questions for you. The answers to which I will never receive.
- When a star falls in the sky, I no longer make wishes. I just hope that at this moment you are somewhere and thinking about me.
- Everyone says to forget and let go. But how to do this if you were the most important person in my life?!
- When those you truly value leave, you begin to realize that you took too few photographs and talked too little about what was important.
- It’s hard to imagine that I will ever be able to become attached to someone, even for a second, as much as I am to you.
- If footsteps leave traces, then the departure of loved ones leaves deep wounds in the heart.
- You know, it’s easier for me to accept that you are in hell or have left me for someone else than to realize that you are no longer in the whole wide world...
- I'm not going to forget you. No matter what anyone says, and no matter what anyone claims...
- You weren't the most beautiful, and you weren't the funniest. But now I realized that you were the closest to my heart!
- I know that I am only obliged to remember you, but in fact I am completely in love with you.
- How sad it is when you only bring sweets and lifeless flowers to meet your mother.
- You get used to everything, even to the fact that you no longer have the person you love most. But true love does not die even in such conditions...
- Time passed and the quarrels faded from memory. And now I remember you as the most beautiful, kindest and good person.
- Even though you are gone, I know, dad, from the immense heights of heaven you are praying for me...
- I will definitely remember you. I will also remember the pain I felt when you left.
Quotes about death
The diseases of old age weaken our attachment to life as we approach death. Swift D.
Struggle is a condition of life: life dies when the struggle ends. Belinsky V. G.
We should not be afraid of death, but of empty life. Brecht B.
All religions are based on the fact that the majority of people are afraid of death, and a minority cleverly exploit this fear. Stendhal
Before I was old, I cared about living well; in old age, I cared about dying well. Seneca
A bad life leads to a bad death. Moliere
The life of the dead continues in the memory of the living. Cicero
When the game ends, the king and pawn fall into the same box. Italian proverb
When you were born, you cried, and the world laughed; so live your life so that when you leave, you laugh, and the world weeps. T. Shakur
He who has known the fullness of life does not know the fear of death. Fear of death is only the result of an unfulfilled life. This is an expression of betrayal of her. Kafka F.
People die so that humanity can live. Belinsky V. G.
They asked me: who are you? I am what is left when “I” has died.
The sage is not afraid of death, because he knows that death is far from a person while he is alive, and when a person dies, he himself is far from death. Reyhani A.
At the end of his life, a sage understands that death is terrible only from the outside, for close people, but for himself there is no death, and the person himself, as he is born immortal, leaves us. Prishvin M. M.
We are denied long life; let us leave behind the works that will prove that we have lived! Pliny the Elder
Why didn’t the Almighty Creator of our bodies want to grant us immortality? If we are perfect, why do we die? If they are imperfect, then who is the bastard? Omar Khayyam
For whom you want to live, for those you want to die, do not be afraid. Basil the Great
Those people whose lives have the most value are the least afraid of death. Kant I.
You can be afraid of death or not - it will come inevitably. Goethe I.
The death of a sage is death without the fear of death. Seneca
Death awaits everything: it is a law, not a punishment. Seneca
The death of those who do immortal deeds is always premature. Pliny the Younger
The one who has many reasons for leaving life is completely insignificant. Epicurus
The fact that he died does not prove that he lived. Stanislav Jerzy Lec.
You will live in the world ten times, repeated ten times in children, and you will have the right in your last hour to triumph over conquered death. Shakespeare W.
