"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."

Death, Cowards, Expectation, Heroes

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"Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it."

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

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"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

Thomas Merton, American Author

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"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony."

Elizabeth Fishel, American Writer

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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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