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"Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn."
"The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one."
"How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out."
"The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."
"He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies"
"My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands."
"To philosophize is to learn to die."
"Everything that gets born dies."
"one day anyone died i guess (and noone stooped to kiss his face) busy folk buried them side by side little by little and was by was"
"Buffalo Bill's defunct"
"The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow."
"Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?"
"We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world."
"I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death."
"Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves."
"Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion."
"To my mind, there are two things that, in life, you can do about death. Either you can choose to ignore it, in which case you may have some success in making the idea of it go away for a limited period of time, or you can confront the prospect of your own death and try to analyze it and, in so doing, try to minimize some of the inevitable suffering that it causes. Neither way can you actually overcome it."
"I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place."
"The process of dying begins with the dissolution of the elements within the body. It has eight stages, beginning with the dissolution of the earth element, then the water, fire and windelements. The color: appearance of a white vision, increase of the red element, black near-attainment, and finally the clear light of death."
"We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life."
