"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."

Death, Life, Music, Pain

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

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Death, Legacy, Truth, Future, Inspirational

"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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Death, Life, Nature, Wonder

"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Death, Idols, Want

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

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Death, Shadow

"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."

Thomas Merton, American Author

Death, Life, Eyes, Light

"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Death, Life, Evil

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Death, End, Statesman

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

Death, Life, Day, Sleep

"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony."

Elizabeth Fishel, American Writer

Death, Harmony

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Death, Immortality

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"The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere."

Morality

"Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."

Duty

"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."

Life

"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."

Sacrifice

"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."

Psychology

"It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own."

Psychology

"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."

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

"We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place."

"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."

"An evil life is a kind of death."

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony."

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

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"The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere."

"Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."

"Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand."

"She handled it (her trade) with all the grace that belongs to mastery."

"In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."

"No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."

"Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts-not to hurt others."

"It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own."

"Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."