"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

Death, Being, Old, Struggle

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"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

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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."

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Thomas Merton, American Author

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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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"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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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

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"To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart."

Brian Jones, British Musician

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