"Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it."
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"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
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"The meaning of life is that it stops."
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"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."
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"Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core."
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
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"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
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"I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord."
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"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself."
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"A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient."
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"To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub."
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"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying."
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"To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come."
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"O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!"
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"So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers."
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"Everybody dies but not everybody lives."
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"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
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"Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."
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"We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash."
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."
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