"I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood."

Torrey, R. A. on death
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"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living."

Guthrie, Arlo on death
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"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity."

Santayana, George on death
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"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."

Seneca on death
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"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."

Smith, Dean on death
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on death
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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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"Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life."

Traver, Amos on death
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."

Alsop, Steward on death   

"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

Almes, Guy on death
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"Nothing that is really good and God-like dies."

Arndt, Ernest Moritz on death
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"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Arnold, Matthew on death   

"To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies."

Auerbach, Red on death
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"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

Aurelius, Marcus on death   

"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."

Bacon, Francis on death   

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

Bacon, Francis on death   

"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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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."

Arendt, Hannah on death   

"No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."

Zeno, Citium on death
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"When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us."

Unknown, Source on death
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"Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others."

Unknown, Source on death
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"Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming."

Virgil on death
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"I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave."

Virgil on death
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"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."

Warhol, Andy on death
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"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

Whitman, Walt on death
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on death
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"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."

Yeats, William Butler on death
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"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them."

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny on death   

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."

Nuveen, John on age and aging   

"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

Kent, Dorothea on age and aging   

"In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite."

Kangas, Steve on age and aging   

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Kanin, Garson on age and aging
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