"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Death, Sadness, Silence

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

John Green, American Author

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"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

John Green, American Author

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"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

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"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

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"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."

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"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

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"Do not forever with thy vailed lidsSeek for thy noble father in the dust.Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,Passing though nature to eternity."

"This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets."

"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH."

"Funerals, I had decided, are for the living."

"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death."

"That's part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence."

"No one dies in the language of the Gnani (the Self-realized one) and every one dies in the language of the agnani (non-Self-realized person). The agnani (non-Self-realized person) mourns and grieves, and the Gnani simply 'Sees'."

"People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad."

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."

"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."

"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."

"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains."

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