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~ Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ~

Sophocles

~ God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~

Unknown

~ Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. ~

Toni Morrison

~ Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. ~

Pearl S. Buck

~ All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~

Maurice Maeterlinck

~ Perfectionism is slow death ~

Hugh Prather

~ The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. ~

Elie Wiesel

~ Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. ~

Roland Barthes

~ Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration. ~

Henry Miller

~ The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. ~

Woody Allen

~ No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ~

Eugene Ionesco

~ Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. ~

Jim Bishop

~ Poor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead ~

Perses of Thebes

~ Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. ~

Omar Bradley

~ The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter ~

Yiddish Proverb

Elie Wiesel

~ Faith is a living and unshakable confidence, a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake ~

Martin Luther

~ Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, - His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies ~

Alexander Pope

~ A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ~

Albert Einstein

~ My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. ~

Ernesto Che Guevara

~ Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death. ~

Earl Wilson

~ Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death ~

Albert Einstein

~ Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths. ~

Bovey, Shelley

~ Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. ~

Havelock Ellis

~ The sole equality on earth is death ~

Philip James Bailey

~ The sole equality on earth is death ~

Philip James Bailey

~ Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death ~

Ben Jonson

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