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  • I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

  • Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

    "Wisdom's folly No.18" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2005.
  • I was like you are. I thought Jesus came and died on the cross. Jesus' being here was about his death and dying on the cross but it really was about him coming to show us how to do it. To show us the Christ-consciousness that he had and that conciousness abides in all of us. That's what I got. That's what I got.

  • To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

    Death   Dream   Halloween  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

    Beautiful   Lying   Heart  
    Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp (1989). “The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. November 26, 2002.
  • A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

    Life   Death   Dream  
  • If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

    Fear   Dying   Assassins  
    Indira Gandhi, Pupul Jayakar (1986). “What I am”
  • There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.

    Book   Kids   Writing  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

    Death   Betrayal   Men  
    Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press
  • The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

    Death   Men   Gmos  
    W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.148, DEBOLS!LLO
  • Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  • Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

    Sir Edwin Arnold (1893). “The Light of the World, Or, The Great Consummation”
  • Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

  • We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

    Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.255, Weiser Books
  • Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

    Death   Song   Hero  
    "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.
  • It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

    Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
  • Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

    Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
  • If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

    Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press
  • But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

    Talking   People   Dying  
  • You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

  • 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

    Death   Desire   Certain  
    Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Routledge
  • After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

    Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press
  • People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

  • There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

    Cancer   Kids   World  
    John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin
  • You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

    Death   Heart   Secret  
    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

    Dying   Care   Aspect  
    "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
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