“Death is softer by far than tyranny.”
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“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.”
“That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.”
“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.”
“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.”
“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.”
“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”
“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.”
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.”
“The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.”
“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”
“Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.”
“At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.”
“It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.”
“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
“I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.”
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
“No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.”
“Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.”
“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”
“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”
“She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.”
“At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.”