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"Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched."
"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."
"There are remedies for all things but death."
"We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows."
"A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own."
"Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die."
"The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave."
"It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death."
"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances."
"When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me."
"My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it."
"When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction."
"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death."
"I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
"The world is a playground, and death is the night."
"Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?"
"In the midst of death life persists."
"I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things."
"Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable."
"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."
