"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

Mortality, Death, Acceptance, Truth, Goodness

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"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

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"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

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"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."

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"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression."

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