“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.”
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“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.”
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”
“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”
“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.”
“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.”
“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.”
“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”
“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”
“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”
“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.”
“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”
“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.”
“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.”
“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.”
“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”
“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.”
“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
“If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.”
“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.”
“Death's in the good-bye.”
“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.”