Death
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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Finality is death.Perfection is finality.Nothing is perfect.There are lumps in it.
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People don't care all that much about their own death.What they really worry about, their one fixation, is how to avoid physical suffering as much as possible.
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Every bullet finds a billet.
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Death is a long journey and you can't take anything to read on it.
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Most men who act bravely in war, do so because they dread succumbing to fear more than they dread the risk of being killed.
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For reasons unknown, your atoms will close you down then silently disassemble and go off to be other things.And that's it for you.
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All men are cremated equal.
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I’m not afraid of dying.I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day.
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We live by encouragement and die without it – slowly, sadly, and angrily.
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The long habit of living ill disposeth us for dying.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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For me dying is a lot like going camping. I don’t want to do it.
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Put corpse on ice until close of play.
[W.G. Grace’s Coroner brother to postpone an inquest]
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The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
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I am always angry when I am dying.
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This is no time for making new enemies.
[on being asked to renounce the Devil]
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When they die some people are more missed than grieved over, others cause us grief, but are scarcely missed.
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Death is what gets poets up in the morning.
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I refused to attend his funeral, but I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
