Death
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives — the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.