“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”
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“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.”
“Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.”
“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.”
“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”
“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”
“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.”
“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”
“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.”
“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”
“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.”
“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”
“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?”
“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.”
“A useless life is an early death.”
“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”