"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."

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"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."

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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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"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."

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"You don't need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave."

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

John Green, American Author

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"Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

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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."

"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."

"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."

"A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind."

"Life has an end. We are all on a transit."

"You don't need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave."

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

"Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying."

"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

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