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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel de Cervantes
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
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A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag
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A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
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A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
George Meredith
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A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.
John Berger
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel García Márquez
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Seneca the Younger
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A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin.
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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Virginia Woolf
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
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All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
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All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.
Edward Young
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All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Mark Twain
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All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid
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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
Christina Rossetti
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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. -- Matthew 10:28
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And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. -- New Testament
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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.
Mark Twain
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Brontë
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
Enid Bagnold
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As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. -- Job 14:11-12
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As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
John Donne
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Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
Christina Rossetti
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Francis Picabia
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But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
William Shakespeare
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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
Euripides
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But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
James Russell Lowell
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But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
Leo Tolstoy
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
James Thurber
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Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
Walter Scott
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Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
Walter Scott
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Death always comes too early or too late.
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
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Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.
William Hazlitt
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Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.
E. M. Forster
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Death doesn't frighten me.
Diana, Princess of Wales
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Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
Jean Paul
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
Eric Hoffer
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
Herodotus
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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
Emily Dickinson
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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Paul de Man
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Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius
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Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
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Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
Alexander Maclaren
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Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
Doug Horton
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton
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Death is the cure for all diseases.
Thomas Browne
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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Death is the final wake-up call.
Doug Horton
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton
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Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet
George Eliot
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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Seneca the Younger
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
Dwight L. Moody
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
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Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.
Thomas Wolfe
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Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.
Virgil
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Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Michel de Montaigne
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius
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Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard Shaw
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Michel de Montaigne
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
Andy Warhol
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Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
James Thurber
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Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx
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Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther
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Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
André Gide
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
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For the dead there are no more toils.
Sophocles
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