"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."

Death, Life, Balance, Mind

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"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."

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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Death, Humor, End, Life

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Death, Memory, Sorrow, Celebrity

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Death, Guilt, Mercy, Emotion

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Death, Parting

"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

Death, Children, Soldiers, Sons

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Nothing

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

Horace, Roman Poet

Death, Kings, Poor

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Death, Living, Praise

"Swearing, d'Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to the bridge, everything looked pretty ordinary " except for the third body of the day, which was lying spread-eagled on the deck with an almost comical look of surprise on his face. Jang was dead, although d'Angelo couldn't see the cause, but then, he was no doctor. He sighed dismally. Now he hadn't a navigator either. Or a crew for that matter."

Christina Engela, South African Author

Death, Mystery, Loss, Space

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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

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"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."

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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection."

"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."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."

"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

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"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?"

"An intellectual hatred is the worst."

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."