"To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."

Mortality, Death, Difference, Luck, Fate

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"To die is different from what anyone supposed, and luckier."

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"Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity."

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"Life is but a breath. The end of life is the last breath of a man."

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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

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"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old."

George Orwell, British Author

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"When the heart accepts death first, words you can trust are feelings you can take."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Do not forget you will never live forever."

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"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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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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"I've never once thought about how I was going to die, she said. "I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."

Power

"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."

Reality

"Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn't have been, because he would have been a Native American or possibly an American Indian or a First Person or an Indigenous Person, and they did not have Latin or any other kind of written language then. So did Ovid matter because he was Ovid or because he lived in Ancient Rome?"

Identity

"You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to."

Communication

"It doesn't matter how long we've used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks-at least so far-are fairly limited in their awesomeness."

Technology

"That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without."

Fear

"Nuts, arms, stomachs -- they never hurt. All hurt is brain hurt."

Health

"How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?"

Emotion

"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."

Forgiveness

"You don't get to have an opinion on whether .999 is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the universe to respect what they've figured out."

Science