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I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.
We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.
Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
Before a dream is realized the soul of the world tests everything that was learned along the way.
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives
One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Don't you be afraid, sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do.
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.