"Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings."

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Are-you dying?" she asked."Just can't breathe. This air.""Poor, poor-good lord. I've forgotten your name.""Hell of a thing.""Barney!"He clutched her."No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered."I wasn't going to," he said. "Oooaugh!"He laughed."Don't please laugh at me.""Not meant unkindly."A long silence, then. Then, "Oof."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

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"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Mortality, Death, Life, Triumph, Transition

"For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Mortality, Death, Memory, Existence, Life

"You could have died later on, you could have died after peace had been declared. But, in any case, you were going to die."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Mortality, Death, Peace, Acceptance, Fate

"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

"Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly."

"Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then-our friends are not able to finish their stories."

"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it."

"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

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"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."

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"Every old poem is sacred."