“A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton
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“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.”
“If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.”
Source: Complete Essays
“Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.”
Source: Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
Source: Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Mopby-Dick, White-jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn
“Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.”
“Men die and they are not happy.”
Source: Caligula and Three Other Plays
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The end of a life is always vivifying.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.”
Source: The Collected Shorter Plays
Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.”
“Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.”
“Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.”
“If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.”
Source: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works
“At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!”
“The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.”
Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life”
“As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.”
“Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.”
“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes