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When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying!

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves A...

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Life is death we're lengthy at

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

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of ...

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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt qu...

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To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.

But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and ...

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The meaning of life is that it ends

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one nig...

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In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a...

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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

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Gabriel García MárquezMemories of My Melancholy Whores

As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.

Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the hor...

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George EliotThe Lifted Veil

I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much i...

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Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last shit yo...

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Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

Dying is not dead.

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George R. R. MartinA Feast for Crows

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of...

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You have to learn to do everything even to die.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature ...

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Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

At last God caught his eye.

That’s my dream. It’s always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it’s j...

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Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

Aren't you afraid of dying?Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, ...

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Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, ...

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That's how lonely and sad I was. Dying is not that hard. Lime the air being sucked slowly out of a r...

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All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of...

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I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live ...

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Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking y...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

But you're dead," said Harry."Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly."Then...I'm dead too?""Ah," ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

But the sons of Men die indeed, and leave the world; wherefore they are called the Guests or the Str...

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They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past...

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...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the h...

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!

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Jim ElliotThe Journals of Jim Elliot

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone wh...

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Is it really worth dying for the person you lo

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the...

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One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.

Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.

Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know fo...

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All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

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John Green (author)Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...

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Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you...

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With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard...

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You can't just make me different and then leave

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home,...

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Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself.

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequea...

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I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows h...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike...

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I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?'Some wa...

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Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...

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How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her...

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existe...

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John KeatsSelected Letters

Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the bene...

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John MortimerThe Summer of a Dormouse

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence g...

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Jonathan Safran FoerEverything Is Illuminated

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going t...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f...

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Jonathan StroudThe Whispering Skull

Things have a terrible permanence when people die.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

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Julia CameronGod is No Laughing Matter

if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simp...

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He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the m...

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The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exact...

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Leo TolstoyHow Much Land Does a Man Need? and Other Stories

It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and sensel...

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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look...

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We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, ...

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A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

The Sunlight on the GardenThe sunlight on the gardenHardens and grows cold,We cannot cage the minute...

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If this is dying I don't think much of it.

No doubt my books too, like my mortal being, would eventually die, one day. But one has to resign on...

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In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dyi...

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.

oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So...

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.