Excerpts
Here are a few examples of writings and poems you’ll find in Passages
“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
advanced a stage or two upon that road which you
must travel in the steps they trod.”
Aristophanes
Greek, 448 – 380 B.C.
“If we have not been pleased with life,
we should not be displeased with death,
for it comes from the hand of the same master.”
Michelangelo Buonarrati
Italian, 1474 – 1564
“How strange this fear of death is!
We are never frightened by the sunset.”
George MacDonald
Scottish, 1824 – 1905
“From too much love of living,
from hope and fear set free,
we thank with brief thanksgiving
whatever gods may be
that no man lives forever,
that dead men rise up never
that even the weariest river
winds up somewhere safe to sea.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English, 1937 – 1909
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“The Spirit that is in all beings
is immortal in them all:
for the death of what cannot die,
cease thou to sorrow.”
The Bhagavad Gita
Hindu, circa 400 B.C.
“Death is one of two things. Either it is annihilation, and the dead have no consciousness of anything; or, as we are told, it is really a change:
a migration of the soul from one place to another.”
Plato
Greek, circa 428 – 384 B.C.
