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Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

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Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.

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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Death Quotes , Suicide Quotes

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

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We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

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I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

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It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.

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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Death Quotes , Different Quotes

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

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Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Death Quotes , Running Quotes

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

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Death Quotes , Inspirational Life Quotes

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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