“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.”
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“Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.”
“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
“Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.”
“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
“Man always dies before he is fully born.”
“Call no man happy till he is dead.”
“To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”
“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.”
“Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.”
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.”
“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”