"Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared."
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"A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!"
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"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."
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"Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine"
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"Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf."
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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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"To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack."
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"When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood."
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"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."
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"The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits."
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"Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)"
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"Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave."
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"Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill."
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"If this is death, it is easier than life."
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"It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying."
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"Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived."
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"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl"
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"Death is the mother of forms."
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"Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose."
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"You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James."
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