“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.”
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“I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.”
“There is something about poverty that smells like death.”
“As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.”
“If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.”
“The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.”
“There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.”
“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”
“People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.”
“Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.”
“See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.”
“Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.”
“For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.”
“Death is with you all the time you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.”
“People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.”
“The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.”
“When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.”
“In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.”
“The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.”
“His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.”
“But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.”
“To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.”
“There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.”