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Death Quotes
"The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life."
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"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling."
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"I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. "Well, well, now at any rate I understand poor Denethor a little better. We might die together, Merry and I, and since die we must, why not? Well, as he is not here, I hope he'll find an easier end. But now I must do my best."
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"Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it."
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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
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"The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra."
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"When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?"
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"The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead."
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"The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat."
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"It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality."
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"Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side."
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"Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age, it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw."
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"What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean."
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"A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on."
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"Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.Put out the light, and then put out the light:If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,I can again thy former light restore,Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,I know not where is that Promethean heatThat can thy light relume."
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"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."
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"Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another."
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"At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death."
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"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."
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"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way."
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"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."
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"At the time of death, one says, 'Dear Lord, extend my life for two more hours, so that a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] comes and I can do his darshan.' He complains in this way. Do not complain now. Why are you pleading now? When you had the control, you didn't do anything and now that you no longer have the control, you are making demands?"
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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."
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"People tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are."
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