"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."

Mortality, Death, Life, Meaning

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"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."

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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we'd die, we'd wander around and sleep like cats."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

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"Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt."

Darynda Jones, American Author

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"Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

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"Every thought about death takes a moment of life away."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"I have died at the ripe age of twenty.Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.I have died at the mature age of ninety.Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.I have died suddenly-out of the blue.Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.I have died from a long illness.Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.I did not want to leave this Earth.But smile, for I am still here among you.Why are you crying?Can you not see I am smiling?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

Emotional

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

Fear

"The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight."

Productivity

"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."

Opportunity

"This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe."

Relationship

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

Courage

"Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem."

Courage

"I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime."

Regret

"Stay close 2 those who r by ur side in happy times, because they do not harbor jealousy or envy in their hearts, only joy 2 c u happy..."

Friendship

"Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time."

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