"Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die."

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."

"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."

"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

"Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies."

"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

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"Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination."

"The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree."

"One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine."

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