Death
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When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.
Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Yes, people pull the trigger — but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
