"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."

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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."

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

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Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

John Green, American Author

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John Green, American Author

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"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

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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."

"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."

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

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