"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Death, Living, Sickness, Sleep

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"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

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"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life."

Jesus Christ, Jewish Clergyman

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"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices."

William Robertson Smith, Scottish Scientist

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"The dead aren't scary. They are just sad."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."

John Green, American Author

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Susan stared at him.The blue glow in Death's eyes gradually faded, and as the light died it sucked at her gaze so that it was dragged into the eye sockets and into the darkness beyond, which went on and on, for ever. There was no word for it. Even eternity was a human idea. Giving it a name gave it a length; admittedly, a very long one. But this darkness was what was left when eternity had given up. It was where Death lived. Alone."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."

Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish Diplomat

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"Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible."

Isaac Butt, Irish Politician

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