"In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent."

Mortality, Death, Reason, Silence, Emotion

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"In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent."

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"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or be prepare for the worst. Who is prepared never get suprised easy!)."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?"

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure."

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"Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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"Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."

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"Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket."

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"Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing."

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