"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Death, Health, Life, State

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Death, Memory, Sorrow, Celebrity

"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Death, Sleep, Peace, Heaven

"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Death, Fearlessness, Revenge, Morality

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Death, Success, Being

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

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Death, Immortality

"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Death, Guilt, Mercy, Emotion

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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."

"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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

"Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt."

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"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."

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"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."

"The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life."

"Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means."