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

Mortality, Focus, Life, Truth

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

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"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."

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"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?"

Roman Payne, American Novelist

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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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