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“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.”

“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”

“Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.”

“I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.”

“Death cannot kill what never dies.”

“Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.”

“Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”

“As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!”

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.”

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”