"We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning."

Manilius, Marcus on death   

"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life."

Mann, Thomas on death   

"The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace."

Marvell, Andrew on death   

"Either he's dead or my watch has stopped."

Marx, Groucho on death   

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on death   

"We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss."

Osborne, John on death   

"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid on death
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"If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying."

Palmer, Laura on death   

"He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on death   

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."

Johnson, Samuel on death
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"Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish."

Ionesco, Eugene on death   

"In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave."

Ingalls, John J. on death   

"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

Epicurus on death
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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

Gabirol, Ibn on death
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"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born."

Gilmore, Gary Mark on death
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"Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

Hammarskjold, Dag on death   

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

Hammarskjold, Dag on death   

"To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place."

Haracourt, Edmond on death
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"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."

Havner, Vance on death   

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on death
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on death
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"Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair."

Henley, William Ernest on death   

"Only the young die good."

Herford, Oliver on death
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"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men."

Herodotus on death   

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

Hesse, Hermann on death
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"Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow."

Hoffer, Eric on death   

"'Tis after death that we measure men."

Hope, James Barron on death   

"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."

Hook, Sydney on death   

"How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."

Hoffer, Eric on death   

"Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance."

Bayly, Joseph on death
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"Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away."

Proverb, Persian on death
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on death
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"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on death
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"Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies."

Thackeray, William M. on death   

"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."

Picabia, Francis on death   

"Death is a shadow that always follows the body."

Proverb, English on death
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"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."

Theroux, Paul on death
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"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."

Thomas, Dylan on death
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