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There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Jean de la Bruyere
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Julius Caesar
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Life is a dream walking death is a going home.
Chinese Proverb
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
Arabic Proverb
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
Gary Mark Gilmore
I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.
Orson Scott Card
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Steven Wright
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.
Christopher Hitchens
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
Mario Puzo
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
J.K. Rowling
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.
Billy Corgan
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
Stanislav Grof
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
Jodi Picoult
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden