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If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever ...

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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone wh...

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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul ...

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Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the...

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Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like...

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The last good time always comes

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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Stephen KingRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming e...

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Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the on...

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Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death,...

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Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end den...

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Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in pr...

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Sue GraftonI is for Innocent

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I ...

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying wi...

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To Tiffany's surprise, Nanny Ogg was weeping gently. Nanny took another swig from her flagon and wip...

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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th...

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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefo...

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I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water wh...

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You were right to come to see a dying man. It is right that these moments should have witnesses. Eve...

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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a fri...

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Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

A week passed, and Jean Valjean had not taken a step in his room. He still remained in bed. The port...

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I must be able to say, 'Percival, a ridiculous name'. At the same time let me tell you, men and wome...

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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

He's lost his colour very far from here,Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry

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Wilfred OwenThe War Poems

Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, e...

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When you stop growing you start dying.

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He wi...

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying...

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I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death.The rest are actors who want me to s...

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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let ...

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What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...

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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.

Flowers, cold from the dew,And autumn's approaching breath,I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids,Wh...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Let my heiress have full rights,Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.Yet how slowly my stren...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We becom...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the e...

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Anne TylerA Spool of Blue Thread

Yesterday I watched a curious nightfall. The cloud ceiling took on a warm tone, deepened, and depart...

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I think that the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at...

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Annie DillardThe Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person...

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And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep...

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Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of verti...

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It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die o...

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From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently ...

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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew...

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Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the goo...

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To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the...

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...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will...

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No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of li...

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Charles BukowskiBetting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

The dead do not needaspirin orsorrow,I suppose.but they might needrain.not shoesbut a place towalk.n...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and r...

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It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better re...

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There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms o...

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When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for c...

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And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying

The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stop...

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Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the...

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We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a...

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Chuck KlostermanKilling Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meanin...

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You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I ...

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Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands...

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