"Wherever I look there is nothing but the image of death."
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"Death should take me while I am in the mood."
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"If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them."
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"It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them."
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"Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town."
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"Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal."
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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."
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"We shall see later on that the diversity of the forms of death that circulate invisibly is the cause of the peculiar unexpectedness of obituary notices in the newspapers."
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"If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death."
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"It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none."
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"Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it."
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"No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality."
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"Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die."
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"The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water."
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"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily."
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
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"Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral."
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"Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love."
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"Those that God loves, do not live long."
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"War is death's feast."
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