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"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
"You have to die a few times before you can really live."
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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 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."
"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."
"That which does not kill me can only make me stronger."
"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
"I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward"
"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."
"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"
