"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English Poet

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"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

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Stephen King, American Author

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"To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin."

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"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

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"An evil life is a kind of death."

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

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"To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin."

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."