“Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.”
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“I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.”
“But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.”
“Life is but a moment, death also is but another.”
“Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.”
“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”
“Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.”
“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.”
“Death is just life's next big adventure.”
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.”
“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”
“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.”
“I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.”
“Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”
“My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.”
“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”
“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.”
“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
“The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?”
“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”
“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.”