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~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.
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-Francis Bacon
The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and
Morall, 1625
"Of Death"
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not
always agree to die together.
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-Charles Caleb Colton
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For life has no terrors for him who has
thoroughly apprehended that there are no terrors for him in ceasing to
live.
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-Epicurus
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the
moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment of
death.
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-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Many people have played themselves to death.
Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought
himself to death.
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-Gilbert Highet
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Death tugs at my ear and says: 'Live, I am
coming.'
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-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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*[D]reamlike, the soul
flies, insubstantial.
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-Homer
The Odyssey, c. 800 BC
Bk. XI : A Gathering of Shades, 252
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~It matters not how a man
dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so
short a time.
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-Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell's Life
of Johnson, 1791
October 26, 1769
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What value is life if the kindest things
said about oneself are done so only at one's eulogy?
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-Eli Khamarov
Surviving on Planet Reebok
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What is most fearsome about death is that it
takes away something that remains to this day wholly undefined.
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-Eli Khamarov
Lives of the Cognoscenti
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There are three things I know to be true that
frequently make my heart heavy. The first troubles my spirit, because I
will have to die. The second troubles my heart more, because I do not know
when. The third troubles me above all. I do not know where I will go.
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-Dietrich Kolde
Mirror of a Christian Man, 1470
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After my head has been chopped off, will I
still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood
gushing from my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.
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-Peter Kurten, decapitated July 2, 1931
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It's strange to know that she is surely at
peace . . . and yet to grieve so much.
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-Martin Luther, speaking of his daughter,
Magdalene
Qtd. in Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann's Luther's Works,
1955-1986
Vol. 54
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*What, he said, is not
Evenus a philosopher?
Yes, I suppose so, replied Simmias.
Then Evenus will wish to die, he said, and so will every man who is worthy
of having any part in this study. But he will not lay violent hands on
himself; for that, they say, is wrong.
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-The character Phaedo quoting Socrates, in
Plato's
Phaedo, 61c
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*I think it is the essence
of human life that death should be no part of it, and by definition it
isn't. When you die, you stop living. I am concerned only with the
living.
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to Robert Bremer (a fan), November 2,1946
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 6, "The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged Years (1945-
1959)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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In vain
We say a man is happy, till he goes
Beyond life's final border, free from pain.
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-Sophocles
Three Theban Plays
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Capital punishment: them without the capital
get the punishment.
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-John Spenkelink, electrocuted May 25, 1979
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There'll be two dates on your tombstone
And all your friends will read 'em
But all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em...
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-Kevin Welch
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