...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.
A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
Those who focused on
the shock of shards
as the phoenix bird
burst from his shell
nearly missed the sight
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Those who focused on
the shock of shards
as the phoenix bird
burst from his shell
nearly missed the sight
of his wondrous maiden flight
as he soared up and away
and out of sight.
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to read more
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths read more
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
