"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

Mortality, Death, Time, Meaning, Aging

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"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."

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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"You don't need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Mortality, Death, Beauty, Darkness, Bravery

"Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Mortality, Adolescence, Life, Awareness

"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Mortality, Death, End, Peace, Existence

"Rest in Peace?' Why that phrase? That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard! You die, and they say 'Rest in Peace!'. Why would one need to 'rest' when they're dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d'Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I'm only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won't need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Mortality, Rest, Peace, Adventure, History

"Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Mortality, Death, Fate, Acceptance

"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Soul

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

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"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."

Truth

"A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

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"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

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"It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure."

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"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

"You don't need a sad soul to feel the beauty of a dead graveJust stay with the pale moonwhen darkness wants the night to be brave."

"Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying."

"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

"When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?"

"Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell."

"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"

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