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"Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold."
"What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death."
"For now they kill me with a living death."
"Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?"
"He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread"
"We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does."
"Is it then so sad a thing to die?"
"I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once."
"This is no time to make new enemies."
"In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'."
"I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive."
"The birth of science was the death of superstition."
"We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life."
"Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe."
"History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents."
"I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide."
"The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]"
"Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily."
"Die every day. Be reborn again every day."
"But the peasants - how do the peasants die?"
