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"I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest."
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."
"A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends."
"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed."
"No one here gets out alive."
"Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die."
"We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?"
"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."
"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
"Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation."
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
"Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it."
"What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf."
"I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street."
"The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it."
"Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend."
