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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet 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. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”

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Author:Jim Morrison

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

Source: Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

“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

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”

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Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“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.”

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

“Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.”

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Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“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.”

“Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”

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Author:Muriel Spark

“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.”

“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.”

“Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?”

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Author:Euripides

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”

“A good death does honour to a whole life.”

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Author:Petrarch

“And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”

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Author:Confucius

“Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?”

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Book:Vineland

Source: Vineland

“Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

“He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.”

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Author:Richard Harris

“Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.”

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Author:Michael Keaton

“Has it ever occurred to you that how we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life?”

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Author:William Shatner

“If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.”

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Author:Lionel Barrymore

“I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.”

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Author:Ernest Renan

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