"Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life."

Plutarch on Death and Dying
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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 and Dying
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"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."

Pope, Alexander on Death and Dying
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"There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed."

Pound, Ezra on Death and Dying
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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

Proust, Marcel on Death and Dying
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on Death and Dying
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"We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death."

Proverb on Death and Dying
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"If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you."

Proverb, American on Death and Dying
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"Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion."

Proverb, Arabian on Death and Dying
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"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on Death and Dying
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"Death is a shadow that always follows the body."

Proverb, English on Death and Dying
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on Death and Dying
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"Our last garment is made without pockets."

Proverb, Italian on Death and Dying
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on Death and Dying
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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 and Dying
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"There is a remedy for everything; it is called death."

Proverb, Portuguese on Death and Dying
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"A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin."

Proverb, Russian on Death and Dying
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"It's astonishing how important a man becomes when he dies."

Proverb, Yiddish on Death and Dying
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"I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played."

Rabelais, Francois on Death and Dying
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"O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!"

Raleigh, Sir Walter on Death and Dying
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"I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life."

Renan, Ernest on Death and Dying
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"So little done, so much to do."

Rhodes, Cecil on Death and Dying
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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 and Dying
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"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Richter, Jean Paul on Death and Dying
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"Death is a distant rumor to the young."

Rooney, Andy on Death and Dying
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