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"Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."
"We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant."
"Men die and they are not happy."
"To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud."
"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back."
"Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die."
"When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is."
"Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner."
"A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!"
"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."
"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist."
"I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.""
"A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole."
"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."
"Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb."
"Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
"Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
"Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe."
