"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

Death, Dreams, Mother, Beauty

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"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."

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"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself.But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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