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For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Sophocles
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
Ivan Turgenev
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey
Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
Michel De Certeau
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus
Then out spake brave Horatius,The Captain of the Gate:To every man upon this earthDeath cometh soon or late.And how can man die betterThan facing fearful odds,For the ashes of his fathers,And the temples of his Gods.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Horat
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
Antoine De SaintExupery
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush Limbaugh
If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you.
Proverb
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...
Alphonse Daudet, Adapted from Ju
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Pierre Corneille
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
Steven Morrissey
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey Newton
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan