“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.”
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“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.”
Anne Boleyn
“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.”
Carl Sagan
“Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.”
Tennessee Williams
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Walt Whitman
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
Edgar Allan Poe
“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
Michel de Montaigne
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
Lao Tzu
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
Oscar Wilde
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
Fred Rogers
“If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.”
Hyman Rickover
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
Epicurus
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
John Milton
“Beauty and the devil are the same thing.”
Robert Mapplethorpe
“If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction.”
“Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.”
Robert Williams Buchanan
“Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.”
James Joyce
“I don't think I really know just how cool Satan really was when I was in Junior High School. Now, thanks to Marilyn Manson, it's no longer a secret.”
Jim Coleman
“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
Charles Baudelaire
“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most.”
Mark Twain's Autobiography, p117
Mark Twain