"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

Death, Faithfulness, Past, Words

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"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

Pat Boone, American Musician

Death,

"These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Death, Hope, Possessions

"The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Death, Beauty, Romance, Stillness

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Voltaire, French Writer

Death, Life, Fear, Conscience

"All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death,

"Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn."

Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet

Death, Heart, Concern, Will

"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Death, Grief, Emotion, Release

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

J. B. Priestley, British Writer

Death, Despair, Will, Wrong

"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."

Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Author

Death, Principles, Question, Religious

"One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet."

Alvar N. C. de Vaca, Argentinian Explorer

Death, People, Country, Fate

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"I've had death threats, if you can imagine."

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