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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Death, Humor, End, Life

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

Buddha, Indian Leader

Death, Health, Life, State

"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Death, Hardship, Existence, Endurance

"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Death, Memory, Sorrow, Celebrity

"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Death, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Death, Sleep, Peace, Heaven

"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Death, Fearlessness, Revenge, Morality

"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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"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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"Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of."

Life, Solitude, Communication, Silence, Acceptance

"My mother. I don't think too harshly of her. I know she did all she could not to have me, except of course the one thing, and if she never succeeded in getting me unstuck, it was that fate had earmarked me for less compassionate sewers."

Family, Fate, Bitterness, Acceptance

"But there are not two laws, that was the next thing I thought I understood, not two laws, one for the healthy, another for the sick, but one only to which all must bow, rich and poor, young and old, happy and sad. He was eloquent. I pointed out that I was not sad. That was a mistake. Your papers, he said, I knew it a moment later. Not at all, I said, not at all. Your papers! he cried. Ah my papers."

Ethics, Law, Equality, Observation, Justice

"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."

Intelligence, Humanity, Poets, Sense

"Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?"

Absurdity, Love, Doubt, Alienation

"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."

Quality, Tears, World

"There's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough."

Simplicity, Life, Existence, Acceptance

"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."

Trying,

"But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but know in what we are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep on adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or egg collection."

Philosophy, Growth, Sorrow, Wisdom, Reflection

"One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second."

Mortality, Time, Existence, Paradox