Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
— Louis the Pious, King of the Franks (20 June 840), after turning his face to the wall before dying Death of Ragnar Lodbrok as imagined by 19th-century artist Hugo Hamilton "The piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar is suffering!" ("Gnyðja mundu grísir, ef þeir vissi, hvat inn gamli þyldi.") [53]
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide." [citation needed] — Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee (10 September 1813), to his son Death of Poniatowski by January Suchodolski
"But we coped with the sadness, and we wait for death from one moment to the next." [95] — Mohammad Jawad al Jaza'iri, Iraqi cleric, one of the ringleaders of the anti-British uprising in Najaf (May 1918); final lines of poem written prior to his execution "Don't bother with me. Take care of my good men." [96]
Dickinson's tone contributes to the poem as well. In describing a traditionally frightening experience, the process of dying and passing into eternity, she uses a passive and calm tone. Critics attribute the lack of fear in her tone as her acceptance of death as "a natural part of the endless cycle of nature." [6] In 1936 Allen Tate wrote,
Ancient chroniclers reported a variety of phrases and post-classical writers have elaborated on the phrases and their interpretation. [1] The two most common theories – prevalent as early as the second century AD – are that he said nothing or that he said, in Greek , καὶ σύ, τέκνον ( kaì sý, téknon ; 'you too, child').
Grief in any form is one of life's biggest challenges, but losing one's mom is a particularly difficult journey. These loss of mother quotes help honor the beautiful connections mothers make with ...
This famous aphorism used to characterize Heraclitus' thought comes from Simplicius, a Neoplatonist, and from Plato's Cratylus. The word rhei (ρέι, cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream"; according to Plato's Cratylus, it is related to the etymology of Rhea. πάντοτε ζητεῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν
A seminal study in the medical journal BMJ, for instance, found that the risk of death for famous musicians in their 20s and 30s was indeed up to three times higher than for members of the general ...