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“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

“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.”

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

“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

“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

“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”

“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

“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”

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Book:The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

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

“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.”

“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 simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.”

“Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.”

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Book:The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861

Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

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Book:Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition

Source: Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition

“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

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

“Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.”

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Author:Dick Sharples

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

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