"It is not death we fear but the thought of it."

Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Mortality, Death, Fear, Observation, Thought

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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."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"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."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Values, Materialism, Life

"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."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Mortality, Focus, Life, Truth

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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

John Green, American Author

Mortality, Death, Difference, Luck, Fate

"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

Mortality, Death, Courage, Fear, Time

"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

Mortality, Adolescence, Life, Awareness

"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

Mortality, Death, End, Peace, Existence

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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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"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."

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"Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men."

"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."

"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."

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"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."