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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Everything that gets born dies.
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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’Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
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To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.