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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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See in what peace a Christian can die.
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I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
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I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
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There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
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A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
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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.
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
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It is natural to die as to be born.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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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.
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Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
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To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
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Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
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Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.
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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
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Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
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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.
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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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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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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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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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]
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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]
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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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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]
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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]
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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.
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How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?
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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
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Death is the cure for all diseases.
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
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I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.
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The fear of death is worse than death.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
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I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
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Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
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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.
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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.
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What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
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You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them.
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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
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