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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
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But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I’ve failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don’t get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
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Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
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I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
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To some extent I liken slavery to death.
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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
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When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.