"Death fosters life that life may suckle death."
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"He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead."
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"Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle."
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"Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."
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"To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death."
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"Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony."
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"What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?"
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"We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]"
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"What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death."
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"I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us."
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"Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you."
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"No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just."
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"And there were times when one yielded quite shamelessly to the sentimental. They were more likely to be times of crickets, I think, than of birds - when it was impossible not to feel, like another essence of the sunlight, the bittersweet of life that lingers about old houses, and places where men have died, and things that forgotten hands have touched."
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"Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village."
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"Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily."
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"If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there."
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"There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up."
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"I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness."
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"The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one."
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"Even trees do not die without a groan."
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