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What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
If I could say something to everyone on this planet, I'd tell them to follow their dreams.
The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.
Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.
When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.
The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don't want to take anybody else's work with me.
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance.
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.
Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.
I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.
When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.
Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.
Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.
We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.