And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his
name that sat on him was death.
Revelations 6:8
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"There is nothing which at once affects a
man so much and so little as his own death."
--Samuel Butler
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"Dying Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call."
--Sylvia Plath
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From troublous sights and sounds set free;
In such a twilight hour of breath,
Shall one retrace his life, or see,
Through shadows, the true face of death?
--Ernest Dowson, "Extreme Unction" (1896)
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"The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
--Andrew Marvell
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk.
It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau,
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Death is a Dialogue between,
The Spirit and the Dust.
Emily Dickinson
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
the valiant never taste death but once.
--William Shakespear, Julius Caesar
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Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I awake.
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
--old nursery prayer
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Here comes a candle to light you to bed:
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.
--An old nursery rhyme
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He who shall teach the child to doubt
the rotting grave shall ne'er get out
--William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
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The long habit of living
indisposeth us for dying.
--Thomas Browne, Urn Burial
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"Sometimes it is entirely appropriate
to kill a fly with a sledge hammer." --Major Holdridge, 1994
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From troublous sights and sounds set free;
In such a twilight hour of breath,
Shall one retrace his life, or see,
Through shadows, the true face of death?
--Ernest Dowson, "Extreme Unction" (1896)
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There is no better way to know death
than to link it with some licentious image.
--Marquis de Sade
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"I will kill thee and love thee after.
--William Shakespeare, Othello, Act V, Sc. ii
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends. "
--Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
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I'll sleep when I'm dead."
--Warren Zevon
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There is no person who is not dangerous for someone.
--Marie De Sevigne, letter
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Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep and it is lifted.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
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Death has a thousand doors to let out our life:
I shall find one
--Philip Massinger, A Very Young Woman,
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For dust thou art, and unto dust thoush shalt return.
--Bible, Genesis 3:19
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
--James M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep and it is lifted.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
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The Good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
burn into the socket.
--William Wordsworth, The Excursion
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Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Crossing the Bar"
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Death is simply nature's way
of telling us to slow down
--Unknown
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I don't believe in an afterlife,
so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell,
or fearing heaven even more.
For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom
of heaven would be even worse.
--Isaac Asimov
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What greater pain could mortals have than this:
to see their children dead before their eyes?
--Euripides, The Suppliant Women
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The Good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust
burn into the socket.
--William Wordsworth, The Excursion
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Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.
--Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Crossing the Bar"
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