“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”
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“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
“Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.”
“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”
“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.”
“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”
“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.”
“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”
“The goal of all life is death.”
“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.”
“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.”
“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.”
“What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.”
“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”
“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.”
“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.”