"Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Mortality, Life, Truth, Death, Health

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"Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it."

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

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mortality, Time, Truth, Life

"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mortality, Death, Fear, Loss, Joy

"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Mortality, Love, Death, Shame, Prison

"As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Mortality, Time, Diminishing, Life, Awareness

"Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Mortality, Death, Possession, Understanding, Consequence

"It is hard to have patience with people who say, 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn't matter."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Mortality, Death, Patience, Consequence

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Mortality, Life, Days, Fleeting

"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased's chances of going to hell."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Mortality, Truth, Death, Faith, Life

"Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Mortality, Death, News, Obscurity, Life

"Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

Parenting

"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."

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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

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"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

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

"As time diminishes, your life also diminishes with it."

"Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding."

"It is hard to have patience with people who say, 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn't matter."

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

"An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased's chances of going to hell."

"Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved."

"Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!"

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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."

"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."

"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."

"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."