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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

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Book:The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”

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Book:New Selected Essays: Where I Live

Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”

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Author:Epicurus

“To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

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Book:You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection

Source: You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection

“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.”

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Book:The Mother

Source: The Mother

“Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying”

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Author:Gerard Way

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”

“Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.”

Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

“If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.”

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Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.”

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Book:Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”

“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”

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Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love”

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Author:Madame de Stael

“Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.”

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

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Author:George Carlin

“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”

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Author:Willa Cather

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

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Author:Jack Lemmon

“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”

“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”

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Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”

“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.”

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?”

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.”

Source: The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)

“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”

Source: Childhood and Society

“We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.”

“When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.”

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Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“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.”

“I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.”

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Author:Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

“A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.”

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Author:Brian Williams

“We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.”

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Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.”

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Author:Rumi

“We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”

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Author:Woody Allen

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