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Bill Maher

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

John Muir

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is s

Mark Twain

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Bible

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Alain de Botton

written as a reaction to the high casualty rates of the British Expeditionary Force at Mons and Le Cateau

George Gordon Byron

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn???t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there???s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven???t had a good time, ???Why do you seek to add more years, which woul

Epicurus

Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings

Kahlil Gibran

A lion is much more dreadful to him that never saw him, than he is to his keeper who feedeth him every day. A pitched battle is more frightful and scaring to a new-listed soldier, that never took his place in the field before, nor saw the dreadful counten

Gary Mark Gilmore

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Thomas Nash

Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. When a good man dies, For years beyond his ken, The light he leaves behind him shines Along the path of men.

Robert Herrick

Tomorrow we shall meet, Death and I -. And he shall thrust his sword Into one who is wide awake.

Albert Pike

[written for his friend and mentor, A. B. Maston]

Sylvia Plath

Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

James Shirley

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distanc

Friedrich von Schiller

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Josef Stalin

All are equal Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

Wallace Stevens

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know q

Robert Louis Stevenson

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Dylan Thomas

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.

Mark Twain

Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.

Henry Van Dyke

Death is the end of life; ah why Should life all labour be? . . . All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence - ripen, fall, and cease; Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.

Walt Whitman

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Frida Kahlo

I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.

Tennessee Williams

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Mark Twain

All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

John Taylor

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

David Sarnoff

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

William Penn

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

John Muir

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

Bill Maher

Suicide is man's way of telling God, You can't fire me - I quit.

Helen Keller

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Elbert Hubbard

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Edward W. Howe

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Robert Alton Harris

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.

Kahlil Gibran

For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

Euripides

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Erik H. Erikson

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Henry Van Dyke

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Marlene Dietrich

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Clarence Darrow

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Jack Cleary

I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.

Lord Byron

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Stewart Alsop

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.

Leonardo DaVinci

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Henry Van Dyke

Death is the end of life; ah why Should life all labour be? . . . All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence - ripen, fall, and cease; Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

SHELLEY: _Queen Mab,_ St. i.

How wonderful is Death! Death and his brother Sleep.

Joseph Stalin

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

Sophocles

Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

Sophocles

Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sybil Adelman

I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.

Charles Hendrickson Brower

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Andrew Schneider

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

MRS. HEMANS: _Hour of Death._

Leaves have their times to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set--but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death.

George Santayana

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.

HEBER: _At a Funeral,_ No. i.

Our days begin with trouble here, Our life is but a span, And cruel death is always near, So frail a thing is man. _From the New England Primer._ Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

LONGFELLOW: _Resignation,_ St. 5.

There is no Death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call death.

Thomas Arnold

It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

Charles Grodin

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

G. Gordon Liddy

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Yukio Mishima

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

John Muir

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is s

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Thomas A. Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so

Iggy Pop

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

Thomas Alva Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

John Donne

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

SHAKS.: _Jul. C?sar,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death. SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 4. When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Wallace Stevens

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know q

Albert Camus

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Thomas Mann

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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.

Thomas H. Kean

The most painful death in all the world is the death of a child. When a child dies, when one child dies-not the 11 per 1,000 we talk about statistically, but the one that a mother held briefly in her arms-he leaves an empty place in a parent's heart that will never heal.

John Muir

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

Logan Pearsall Smith

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

Andrew Schneider

The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.

Confucius

If we don't know life, how can we know death

Graffito

Is there life before death

Voltaire

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.

Jean Anouilh

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

DRYDEN: _Aurengzebe,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden

Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

Jerry Coleman

He can be lethal death.

Plato

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death

American Indian Proverb

In death, I am born.

Sir Walter Scott

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

Benjamin Franklin

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

John Dean

An answer is always a form of death.

Harold Wilson

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Dr. Robert Schuller

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die la

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it wi

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Death destroys man; the idea of Death saves him. --E. Forster

Death to the despicable anti-intellectuals. Death.

Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.

Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we???d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives impo

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjust

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

"How wonderful is death. Death and his brother, sleep." - The Crow

"Death by asphyxiation, or death by radiation poisoning." Kirk

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

"You can't trade death for death." - Duncan MacLeod

"I am Death, and I here-by declare you to be living impaired." -Death

"Death! I'm talking about death and NICK IS STILL IN THERE!" - Frannie

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

"Death, pain, fire, death, pain, fire, no, no, no!" - Lady Ladira

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

"Death was not for him; Death was become him." - DT II

Is there life before death?

I've plummeted to my death and I can't get up.

Give death a better name or die trying.

Repetition is the death of art.

Death is hereditary.

Not going home is already like death.

Nothing in the world is as certain as death.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

The first condition of immortality is death.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Death benefits = oxymoron.

Death before dishonor, but neither before breakfast.

There is no death. Only a change of worlds.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Death on two legs...you're tearin' me apart !!!!

Belief is the death of intelligence.

The goal of all life is death.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

How come the AT&T logo looks like the Death Star?

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

I will defend to your death my right to my opinion.