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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
Emily Mortimer
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
George Meredith
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
David Duchovny
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
Elisabeth KublerRoss
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment>.
Dorothy Parker
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
J.K. Rowling
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Jean Cocteau
Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.
Suge Knight
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
Chief Seattle
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
David Carradine
When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.
John Hodgman
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin
So live, that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan, which movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy graveLike one who wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
William Cullen Bryant, Thanatops
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar