"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist."

Death, Concern, Living

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"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist."

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Death, Life, Day, Sleep

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Death, Afterlife, Life, Philosophy

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

Stephen King, American Author

Death, Future, Truth, Power, Happiness

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Death, Life, Cycle, Reality

"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"

Stephen King, American Author

Death, Truth, Happiness, Future, Wisdom

"Death is a fearful thing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death,

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Cowards, Taste

"Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public."

Jessica Mitford, American Journalist

Death, Dying, Public

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"It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it."

Choice

"A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute."

Humor

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

Perception

"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."

People

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."

Illusion

"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

Mother

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

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

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"

"Death is a fearful thing."

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"The crown of literature is poetry."

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"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."

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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."