"The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die."

Mortality, Death, Lesson, Humility

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"The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die."

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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

Patrick Ness, American Author

Mortality, Death, Loss, Observation, Emotion

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendent world; or to be worse than worstOf those that lawless and incertain thoughtImagine howling: 'tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone."

Kiera Cass, American Novelist

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"The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist."

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"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

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"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."

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"As long as Nelson was socked into baseball statistics or that guitar or even the rock records that threaded their sound through all the fibers of the house, his occupation of the room down the hall was no more uncomfortable than the persistence of Rabbit's own childhood in an annex of his brain; but when the stuff with hormones and girls and cars and beers began, Harry wanted out of fatherhood."

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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

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"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."

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