“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”
John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
“This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 103.
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Thornton Wilder book The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Context: Soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
“Most precious are the people; next come the spirits of land and grain; and last, the kings.”
Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher
(zh-TW) 民為貴，社稷次之，君為輕。
7B:14. Variant translations:
Of the first importance are the people, next comes the good of land and grains, and of the least importance is the ruler.
The people are the most important ... and the ruler is the least important.
The Mencius
Variant: The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain come next; the sovereign counts for the least.
“But how do we even get to the land of the dead?” I asked. “I mean…without dying.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher
7B:14. Variant translation: The people are the most important ... and the ruler is the least important.
The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain come next; the sovereign counts for the least. note: Most precious are the people; next come the spirits of land and grain; and last, the princes. note: The people are the most important ... and the ruler is the least important.
The Mencius
“India is not a piece of land, but a living entity.”
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
As quoted in Agnohotri, V. (2018). Urban Naxals: The making of Buddha in a traffic jam. Also quoted in Kashmir integral part of India, Article 370 should be scrapped: Vijay Rupani https://indianexpress.com/elections/gujarat-assembly-elections-2017/kashmir-integral-part-of-india-article-370-should-be-scrapped-vijay-rupani-4934767/ Indian Express.
T.S. Eliot book The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men (1925) <br class="br">Context: This is the dead land<br>This is cactus land<br>Here the stone images<br>Are raised, here they receive<br>The supplication of a dead man's hand<br>Under the twinkle of a fading star.<br>[... ]<br>The eyes are not here<br>There are no eyes here<br>In this valley of dying stars<br>In this hollow valley<br>This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms<br> In this last of meeting places<br>We grope together<br>And avoid speech<br> http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#fiftysevensixtyGathered on this beach of the tumid river<br> Sightless, unless<br>The eyes reappear http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyonesixtytwo<br> As the perpetual star<br>Multifoliate rose http://aduni.org/~heather/occs/honors/Notesonpoem.htm#sixtyfoursixtythree<br>Of death's twilight kingdom<br>The hope only<br>Of empty men.