"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death.""

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"To be closed as a person, it's not bad if you know that when this two rules, playing by your rules doesn't mean that you won't end up in jail, security why?We both know that everyone dies... it really doesn't matter who is first... in the end all die!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"He put the car in gear and went, feeling again how easy it had been to slip through an unexpected fissure in what he had considered a solid life- how easy it was to get over onto the dark side, to sail out of the blue and into the black."

Stephen King, American Author

Death, Truth, Future, Regret, Today

"It's not that I've 'faked my own death' as the saying goes. Maybe it's that I've 'faked my own life,' and in doing so I've yet to realize how dead I really am."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

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