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

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

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death."

John Pearson, British Theologian

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"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

Millicent Fawcett, British Activist

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"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."

Omar N. Bradley, American Soldier

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"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes."

Robert Bolt, British Playwright

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