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«But what you minded most at our final parting was that in my poor rags -but was it not the costume of a beggar?- you couldn't see our tears as in a suit of armor.»
«Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
parting, reunion, The Reunion
«Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
coming together, foretaste, His Resurrection, parting, partings, resurrection, resurrections, The Resurrection
«ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this:The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aims, composition, cur, curs, dejection, elegy, employing, fiddle-faddle, fiddle, fiddled, fiddles, fiddling, foretell, foretells, foretold, herd, homeward, knell, knells, lea, like this, loafing, minor, parting, plod, plodding, plods, somewhat, The Lea, verse, without aim, without humor
«In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. - Out of my life and Thought.»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Attitude,
Tragedy
| Keywords:
affirmative, bonds, European, irresistible, loosen, loosened, loosening, loosens, occurring, parting, uniting
«In every parting there is an image of death»
«I never joined the army because at ease was never that easy to me. Seemed rather uptight still. I don't relax by parting my legs slightly and putting my hands behind my back. That does not equal ease. At ease was not being in the military. I am at ease, bro, because I am not in the military.»
«A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
believer, bird, cage, clouds, eagle, freethinker, Freethinkers, parting, partings, The Clouds, tireless, wing
«Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow»
«Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Cassius, farewell, parting, well-made
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