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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
John Ruskin
God's finger touched him and he slept.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Authority forgets a dying king.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau
Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
Dylan Thomas
Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?--Better, unto my thinking, doth it seemTo end it all and let who will survive;To find at last all beauty is but dust;That love and sorrow are the very same;That joy is only suffering's sweeter name;And sense is but the synonym of lust.Far better, yea, to me it seems to die;To set glad lips against the lips of Death--The only thing God gives that comforteth,The only thing we do not find a lie.http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16535/16535-8.txt
Madison Cawein, from The Land of
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
George MacDonald
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.
Mark Twain
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.
S. G. Tallentyre, The Friends of
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain, After reading his ow
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle I
It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
Henry Fielding
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
