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Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
Ernest Becker
Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
John Donne
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 rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.
Aldous Huxley
I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
Jewish Proverb
It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
Dorothy Parker
Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
Archibald MacLeish
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
Charles Mackay
I am going to seek a great Perhaps.
Frangois Rabelais
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
Michel de Montaigne
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
Anonymous
Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
George Santayana
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
John Donne
Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Sigmund Freud
You have to learn to do everything even to die.
Gertrude Stein
Oh death you can wait keep your distance.
Andre Chenier
Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.
Charles Caleb Colton
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
William Shakespeare
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
Alan Gregg
You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
Jerzy Kosiński
If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.
Anonymous
In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Edwin Way Teale
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
I hate funerals and would not attend my Own if it could be avoided but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.
Robert T. Morris
If this is dying I don't think much of it.
Lytton Strachey
At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.
Janet Harris
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Ambrose Bierce
No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.
William Shakespeare
Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose Bierce
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.
Bible
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
Marcus Aurelius
There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
Robert Frost
All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.
Woodrow Wilson
Let the tent be struck.
Robert E. Lee
You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
George Bernard Shaw
Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
Charles Péguy
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Thomas Browne
Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.
Bertrand Russell
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Fedirico Garcia Lorca
It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.
A.L. Prusick
If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
John Donne
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de La Fontaine
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
Jewish saying
The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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