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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
Edward Abbey1927–1989Down the River (1982)
- Love
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11: Money Et Cetera, p. 100
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackermanborn 1948A Natural History of the Senses (1990), Postscript, p. 309
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.
Abigail Adams1744–1818Letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch (1784)
This is the last of Earth! I am content.
John Quincy Adams1767–1848Last words (21 February 1848)
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act IV, scene iv
- Patriotism
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 25 (29 March 1711)
- Fear
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
- Time
If I can any way contribute to the diversion or improvement of the country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 1 (1 March 1711)
‘Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
The bitter, yet merciful, lesson which death teaches us is to distinguish the gold from the tinsel, the true values from the worthless chaff.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus525–456 BCAgamemnon, line 1364–1365
- Liberty