Saturday, November 7, 2009

Death

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

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