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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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The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. T...

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London, December 1915. In the master bedroom (never was the estate agent's epithet more appropriate)...

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By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to di...

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Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy...

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Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a l...

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Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your...

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Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'You...

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Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Noose...

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What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't ...

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Douglas AdamsThe Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're ...

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Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage again...

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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage agai...

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Dylan ThomasDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not bei...

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Edward Thomas (poet)Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

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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