"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Death, Eye, Sun

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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die."

John Green, American Author

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"When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father's paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it into my father's hand. 'What's this?' he asked, raising a brow. 'You'll need it to sign my death certificate, ' I said, pain vibrating my veins against my muscles and bones. 'Are we done now? (Eric)"

Shannon A. Thompson, American Author

Death, Emotion, Despair, Loss, Pain

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Death, Life, Reality, Truth

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die."

"When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist."

"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."

"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

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