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• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humorous, Profound, Dying

  The Twilight of the Idols

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• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Night, Light

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• I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Military, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Civilization

  Onthe detonationof the first atomicbomb,16 Jul1945.Quoted in Len Giovanitti and Fred FreedThe Decision to Drop the Bomb (1965).

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• Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

  Elie Wiesel

  Attitude, Indifference, Dies

  US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

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• On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Wisdom, Zero, Long

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Time, Taxation

  Gone with theWind pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936) See Benjamin Franklin 41; Proverbs 63

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• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Dying, Sun

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 26, 1678.

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• The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

  James Patterson

  Funny Things, Perspective, Maximum Ride

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Fear, Science

  Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (Maulana), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (2001). “Selected Poems of Rumi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

  Mark Helprin

  Prayer, Pain, Drama

  Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt

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• Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Goodbye

  'Good-bye' (1847)

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dark, Soul, Dying

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Poems”

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• Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

  William Mountford

  Possibility, Life Death, Sublimity

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.228

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• The young may die, but the old must!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  May, Young, Dies

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

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• There is no death. The thing that we call death
  Is but another, sadder name for life.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Names, Life Death

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• Death rides on every passing breeze,
  He lurks in every flower.

  Reginald Heber

  Flower, Passing, Breeze

  Reginald Heber (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.227

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• Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

  Emmylou Harris

  Attitude, Grief, Healing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Sweet, Freedom, Business

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Funny, Dream

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

  Dean Ornish

  Change, Heart, Health

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• Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

  C.D. Wright

  Expression, Poetry, Dying

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Reading, Health, Fighting

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• You have to die a few times before you can really live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

  Michel Foucault

  Truth, Philosophy, Men

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Birth of the Clinic”, p.211, Routledge

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