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Dhammapada
Chapter XX: The Way (287)
Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (7)
"For to a man after death his children bring renown, Just as corks bear the net, Saving the fishing-line from the deep." according to the tragic poet...
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...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (17)
No mortal exists who has not toil; He buries children, and begets others, And he himself dies, And thus mortals are afflicted."
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (23)
Death said: 'Choose sons and grandsons who shall live a hundred years, herds of cattle, elephants, gold, and horses. Choose the wide abode of the...
Katha Upanishad
Fourth Vallī (2)
Wise men only, knowing the nature of what is immortal, do not look for anything stable here among things unstable.'...
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...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (4)
The mortal who thinks of his gains or his honours or the favour of many men will be afraid of death when it falls upon him. Whatsoever it be in which...
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...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVII (6)
O Covetousness, that mortals dost ingulf Beneath thee so, that no one hath the power Of drawing back his eyes from out thy waves! Full fairly...
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...
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...
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...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto III (5)
Thereat were quieted the fleecy cheeks Of him the ferryman of the livid fen, Who round about his eyes had wheels of flame. But all those souls who...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 9 (2)
When he has departed, his friends carry him, as appointed, to the fire (of the funeral pile) from whence he came, from whence he sprang....
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,...
Book of Enoch
Chapter CIII (6)
And how they have died in prosperity and in wealth, And have not seen tribulation or murder in their life; And they have died in honour, And judgement...
The Path of Light
Chapter 6: The Perfect Long-Suffering (16)
Praise, glory, and honours make not for righteousness or long life, or for strength, or health, or pleasure of the body. But such will be the end...
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...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (30)
And there is set no limit, no, not one, For mortals of their course to make an end, Except when Death's remorseless final end Comes, sent from Zeus,"-...
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