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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicide, Philosophical, Dying

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

  Thomas Paine

  Dying, Moments, Conquest

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Firsts, Steps, Life Is

  "Fight Club: A Novel". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

  John Green

  Cancer, Honor, Dying

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

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• Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Frost, Romeo And Juliet Romeo

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 25

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• Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of men.

  Juvenal

  Men, Body, Insignificant

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, X, line 172, 1890.

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• The dew of compassion is a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Condolences

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• To die will be an awfully big adventure.

  James M. Barrie

  Travel, Adventure, Dying

  Peter Pan act 3 (1928) See Frohman 1

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• Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
  O grave! where is thy victory?
  O death! where is thy sting?

  Alexander Pope

  Wings, Victory, Aviation

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.152

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• Death hath so many doors to let out life.

  John Fletcher

  Doors, Life Death

  'The Custom of the Country' (with Massinger) act 2, sc. 2.

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• A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

  Victor Hugo

  Feet, Profound, Silence

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• Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ends, Impulse

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Cobbett (1830). “Advice to Young Men”

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• Eternity is now. Right now, right here, you're an infinite being. Once you get past the fear of death as an end, you merge with the infinite and feel the comfort and relief that this realization brings.

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, Comfort, Relief

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way: Easyread Large Edition”, p.166, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Funny, Party, Sneaking Around

  "As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death". Book by Cindy Rogers and Sharon Dardis, 2000.

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• Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
  The mighty soul how small a body holds.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Body, Mysterious

  John Dryden, Keith Walker (2003). “The Major Works”, p.366, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

  John Ray

  Heart, Lasts, Firsts

  John Ray (1827). “The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc”, p.225

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• Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.

  William Wake

  Dies

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• The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Support, Effects, Whole

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• Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Names, Decay

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• I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

  Helen Keller

  Wisdom, Peace, Humorous

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• The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, Heart, Dust

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 1, l. 500

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• Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

  Toni Morrison

  Life, Nature, Garden

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

  Eric Roth

  Letting Go, Dog, Fate

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• maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

  Mary Oliver

  Light, Darkness, Wrapping

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.108, Beacon Press

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• No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Suicide, Dying, Harbors

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