Thursday 28 September 2017

Death

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? - Terry Pratchett

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it. - Isaac Asimov

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying. - George Bernard

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another. - Christian Nestell Bovee

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve. - Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. - Elie Wisel

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills. - Aeschylus

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. - Sir Thomas Browne

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways. - James Joyce

We live as we die, and die as we live. - Deward Counsel

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans? - Robert E. Howard

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. - Albert Pike

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet. - Ambrose Bierce

When death enters window, no time for life to go by door. - Charlie Chan

When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, if we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell. - Benjamin Franklin

When do the dead die? When they are forgotten. - Laura Esquivel

While life could be evaded, death could not. - Dean Koontz

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. - Charles Frohman

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