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...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope read more
...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.
Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.
Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.
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.
 Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortaility.  
 Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortaility. 
So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.
So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you read more
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.