“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.”
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death
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“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.”
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.”
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
“Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.”
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
“Death is a fearful thing.”
“The valiant never taste of death but once.”
“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'”
“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”
“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.”
“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.”
“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.”
“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.”
“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”