Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
William Cowper
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair
WILLIAM COWPER We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.
VIKRANT PARSAI Is not absence death to those who love?
ALEXANDER POPE The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.
CASSANDRA CLARE Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB Shame is worse than death.
RUSSIAN PROVERB Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ignorance is simply the absence of knowledge, but even with knowledge we must apply. If not, we are ...
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
HAMID KARZAI From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
ANN BRASHARES Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
NORMAN COUSINS Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
WASHINGTON IRVING Immortality - a fate worse than death.
EDGAR A. SHOAFF There are worse things than death.
ERIN KELLISON This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence mor...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more th...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.
BHAGAVAD GITA We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
MADAME DE STAEL An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOS Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
KHALIL GIBRAN Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Fake love is even worse than hatred.
OLASOT An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET Just as war is more the absence of love than the presence of hate, and darkness is the absence of li...
UNKNOWN I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
TOM BAKER To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could ...
MALCOLM X Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There is little worse than when the person to whom you want to apologize is having great sex in your...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
WALTER S. LANDOR Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
OUIDA The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
OUIDA The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY How nearly is natural affection connected with the love of God (for if we love not our Brother whom ...
NATHANIEL SMITH I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot ...
THOMAS HARDY Death is not the absence of life alone,but it is also the absence of beliefs towards any worthwhile ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the ...
ANUJ SOMANY And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN Be careful to whom you choose as ur good friend; because some good are worse than the bad.
NNALUE VICTOR The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the ...
ANUJ SOMANY This book is dedicated to all good teachers everywhere, most particularly those of the William Lever...
MICHAEL SWANWICK He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had
cast himself from a precipice.
UNKNOWN And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.
A.E. HOUSMAN Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
FREDERICH WILHELM NIETZCHE How his death hung over that house. Its part of what I know to be trueyour absence is greater th...
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KENNETH DEFFEYES They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine...
ADRIENNE RICH They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine...
ADRIENNE RICH No, it is actually. Life and death are less life-and-death than love is." -Nora
TIFFANY REISZ It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.
ELVIS COSTELLO Love is the absence of judgment.
DALAI LAMA XIV Why is love intensified by absence?
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Absence is the enemy of love
PROVERB Nobody wanted to hear about all the Preterite, the many God passes over when he chooses a few for sa...
THOMAS PYNCHON There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C. I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot ...
BRENDAN F. BEHAN I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could sho...
BRENDAN BEHAN The only thing worse than losing someone you love is never having someone to love that you can lose.
CARL WHITE The soul is stronger than the ego. It lives to BE, and give. We are of one Light, illuminating ourse...
MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO The only thing worse than losing at love was winning.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
HESIOD Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murde...
JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG-ACTON The outlook is worse than we had hoped.
CHRISTIAN MAHER There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman...
WOODY ALLEN There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman...
ANONYMOUS There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman...
WOODY ALLEN Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
ALAFAIR BURKE Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.
MIRANDA KENNEALLY Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equallin...
THEODOR MOMMSEN Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching ...
CAROLEE DEAN This is a worse scenario than we had anticipated.
LUCRECIA TAM For I say, this is death, and the sole death, / When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,/ Darkn...
ROBERT BROWNING To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse,
for richer, for poorer, in sickne...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness ...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He a...
J.K. ROWLING Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you d...
DAVID DIBENEDETTO To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death...
GARRETT FORT The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meet...
WILL ROGERS When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, ...
BRENDAN BEHAN A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
CHIEF JOSEPH We love those whom we serve (p. 26)
RICHARD PAUL EVANS Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political ...
JAMES STEPHENS To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
PABLO NERUDA We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... 1 John 3:14
BIBLE When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence,...
BRENDAN BEHAN It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enl...
WILLIAM COWPER Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse,
But talking is not always to converse,
Not more d...
WILLIAM COWPER Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
WILLIAM COWPER The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased ...
WILLIAM COWPER God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And r...
WILLIAM COWPER His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home.
WILLIAM COWPER Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ...
WILLIAM COWPER Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER We bear our shades about us; self-deprived
Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,
And rang...
WILLIAM COWPER Some boundless contiguity of shade.
WILLIAM COWPER No tree in all the grove but has its charms,
Though each its hue peculiar.
WILLIAM COWPER Discourse may want an animated "No"To brush the surface, and to make it flow;But still remember, if ...
WILLIAM COWPER Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass los...
WILLIAM COWPER Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
WILLIAM COWPER I was a stricken deer, that left the herd / Long since.
WILLIAM COWPER