"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any."

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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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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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Thomas Merton, American Author

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"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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Ovid, Roman Poet

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"It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy."

Brian Perkins, New Zealander Journalist

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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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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

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

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

"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."

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

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"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."

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