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Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (47)
Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (LXXXVI - Death)
The FUMIGATION from MANNA. HEAR me, O Death, whose empire unconfin'd, Extends to mortal tribes of ev'ry kind. On thee, the portion of our time...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Tablet X (16)
You have toiled without cease, and what have you got! Through toil you wear yourself out, you fill your body with grief, your long lifetime you are bringing near (to a premature end)!…
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (5)
The tender plant, and withers all its shades; It lies uprooted from its genial bed, A lovely ruin now defac’d and dead.
The Masnavi
The Sufi and the Qazi (1-11)
The dead regret not dying, but having lost opportunities in life. Well said that Leader of mankind, That whosoever passes away from the world Does...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (7)
It is well for a man to depart to the forest ere the four bearers carry him away amidst the laments of his folk. Free from commerce and hindrance,...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (68)
But if Thorns grow among them, and the Mower comes to reap his Crop, he cuts them down together, but he casts out the Thorns, and they are to be burnt...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introductory Instructions Concerning the Experiencing of Reality During the Third Stage of the Bardo, Called the Chonyid Bardo, when the Karmic Apparitions Appear (3.3)
About this time [the deceased] can see that the share of food is being set aside, that the body is being stripped of its garments, that the place of...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLIII A (31)
Among the dangers to which the deceased is exposed is that of being caught in a net by hidden genii, who will treat him as is done to water-fowl or...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (114)
Behold! Man becomes weak, faint and sick, and if no Remedy be used, then he soon falls into Death. The Sickness is caused either by some bitter and...
The Masnavi
Moses and Pharaoh. 1 (1-10)
Destroy your house, and with the treasure hidden in it The treasure lies under it; there is no help for it; Hesitate not to pull it down; do not tarry...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVIII (7)
In rear of all they shouted: "Sooner were The people dead to whom the sea was opened, Than their inheritors the Jordan saw; And those who the fatigue...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (86)
But when the sweet Water can defend itself no longer, then (Anguish) rises up in it, just as in Man, when he is dying, when the Spirit is departing fr...
Chapter 1: Of Searching out the Divine Being in Nature: Of both the Qualities, the Good and the Evil. (26)
The Water also contains a fierce deadly Spring, for it kills and consumes; and so all Things that have a Life and Being must rot and perish in the...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.67)
For, the mind which yields to the roving senses carries away his knowledge, as the wind (carries away) a ship on water.
Chuang Tzu
T'ien Tzŭ Fang. (4)
Is not that indeed a cause for sorrow? "Now you fix your attention upon something in me which, while you look, has already passed away. Yet you seek f...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto III (6)
"My son," the courteous Master said to me, "All those who perish in the wrath of God Here meet together out of every land; And ready are they to pass...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (4)
The budding wood bears some; in time of spring, They come. So springs one race of men, and one departs."
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 132 (Of how a man cometh by his death)
"Is he to die by a wild beast, the destiny leadeth the wild beast against him until it slay him; or is he to die by a serpent, or is he to fall into...
Orphic Hymns
Orphic Hymns (LXXXIV - Sleep)
The FUMIGATION from a Poppy. SLEEP, king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, Sov'reign of all sustain'd by mother Earth; For thy dominion is supreme...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLIV The Chapter Of Not Letting The Body Decay In The Netherworld (6)
After his soul has departed he dies, and when it has gone down he decays; he is all corruption; all his bones are rottenness, putrefaction seizes his...
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