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God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
- Author Unknown


All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
- Mark Twain


I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
- Jean Giraudoux


There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
- Author Unknown


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- Maurice Maeterlinck


To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler


Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,And spent my little life without a thought,And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,Should think of me, who never thought of him.
- Rene Francois Regnier


The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain


We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
- David Sarnoff


Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon, Essays


If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.
- From the television show Roseanne


Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
- Henry Van Dyke


He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
- Giovanni Falcone


Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins


Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me.The Carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality
- Emily Dickinson


A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
- Percival Arland Ussher


The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu


Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron


No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
- Euripides


Death is a debt we all must pay.
- Euripides


While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo Da Vinci


Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Alice Walker


I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- Willa Cather


Death is a distant rumor to the young.
- Andrew A. Rooney


A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann


There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.
- Kenneth Patchen


He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery


The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
- Mignon McLaughlin


God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
- John Donne


The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Seneca


Years, following years, steal something every day;At last they steal us from ourselves away.
- Horace


Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
- Albert Einstein


Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates


In any man who dies there dies with himhis first snow and kiss and fight....Not people die but worlds die in them.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko


Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.
- Jean de La Fontaine


Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
- Attributed to George Carlin


Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson


Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz


Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
- Herodotus


They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Arthur Schopenhauer


Thou art not dead! Thou art the wholeOf life that quickens in the sod.
- Charles Hanson Towne


Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Tennessee Williams


We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
- Madame de Stael


From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
- Edvard Munch


There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon


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