Death
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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.
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.
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.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Goodbye, friends. I never thought I'd die like this. But I always really, really hoped.
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!
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