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Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. Gordon Liddy
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
Maya Lin
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
Stanislav Grof
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann
All are equal Death lays his icy hand on kings:Sceptre and crownMust tumble down,And in the dust be equal madeWith the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley, Death the Levelle
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon:As yet the early-rising SunHas not attain'd his noon.We have short time to stay, as you,We have as short a Spring;As quick a growth to meet decayAs you, or any thing.
Robert Herrick, To Daffodils
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Soren Kierkegaard
A useless life is an early death.
Johann von Goethe
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.
Kin Hubbard
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
Bible, Matthew 8:2122
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
Bhagavad Gita
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
Guy Almes
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
Steward Alsop
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy
