"I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did."

Death, Hope, Waiting

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"I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did."

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Death, Legacy, Truth, Future, Inspirational

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Death, Life, Nature, Wonder

"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Death, Idols, Want

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Death, Shadow

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

Thomas Merton, American Author

Death, Life, Eyes, Light

"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Death, Life, Evil

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Death, End, Statesman

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony."

Elizabeth Fishel, American Writer

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying."

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"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

"An evil life is a kind of death."

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

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"Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying."

"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."

"Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say."

"I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave."

"I am still simple, just as if I were beginning."

"As long as your heart beats, one is never too old."

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