"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well."

Death, Nature, Fact, Ugly

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

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Death, Guilt, Mercy, Emotion

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Death, Children, Soldiers, Sons

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Nothing

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Death, People, Life, Road

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Death, Life, Cycle, Reality

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Death, Cure

"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Death, Fear, Acceptance, Life

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

John Green, American Author

Death, Irony, Life, Humor

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

bell hooks, American Critic

Death, Life, Time

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

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"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

Genius, Thought, Thoughts, Old

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."

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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."

Happiness, Life, Misery, Trifles

"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

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"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."

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

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

"Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died."

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

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"We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead."

"A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity."

"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death."

"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."

"I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory."

"If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste."

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury."

"To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation."

"If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness."