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Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
You may be gone tomorrow, but that doesn't mean that you weren't here today. Death row is a state of mind.
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices. When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
Never the spirit was born, the spirit shall cease to be never. Never was time it was not, end and beginning are dreams.
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat we say we have had our day.
To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Empty-handed I entered the world ...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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