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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
Thomas Hobbes
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
Henry David Thoreau
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreamsAnd our desires.
Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning
Death is the end of life; ah why Should life all labour be? . . . All things have rest, and ripen toward the graveIn silence - ripen, fall, and cease; Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The LotosE
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my browNo flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!
Thomas F. Healey
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
Sachin Tendulkar
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Pierre Corneille
Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
If we don't know life, how can we know death?
Confucius
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
Jonathan Larson
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.
Moses
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob Dylan
But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Don Van Vliet
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?
Ronald Reagan