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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw
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Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde
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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. -Oscar Wilde
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde
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It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil
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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. -Aeschylus
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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Aeschylus
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci
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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. -Sophocles
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Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.

Sophocles
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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace Mann
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Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. -Epicurus
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Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Randy K. Milholland
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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George F. Burns
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen
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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -Woody Allen
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Publilius Syrus
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The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. -Publilius Syrus
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn
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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Johnny Carson
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For certain is death for the bornAnd certain is birth for the dead;Therefore over the inevitableThou shouldst not grieve. -Bhagavad Gita
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Death's in the good-bye.

Anne Sexton
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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizner
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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire
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