"The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable."
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"One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe."
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"In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death."
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"We are ever dying to one world and being born into another."
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"Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it."
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"We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him."
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"The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day."
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"Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free."
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"There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair."
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"The young may die, but the old must!"
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"Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
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"Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery."
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"All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live."
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"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."
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"Once you're dead, you're made for life."
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"If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be?"
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"Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground."
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"Brief life is here our portion."
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"One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live."
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