“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
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Voices on death
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
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“Death is the best invention of life.”
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.”
“Not even old age knows how to love death.”
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”
“The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.”
“If one day the speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
“I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”
“We the unwilling.
Led by the unqualified.
To kill the unfortunate.
Die for the ungrateful.”http://i.imgur.com/ucAx2Vn.jpg
“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
“He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”
“O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.”
“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.”
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”