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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
--John James Ingalls

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
--Bertrand Russell

It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha, my little dear,' I say, 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
--Dorothy Parker

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.
--William Shakespeare

Now comes the mystery.
--Henry Ward Beecher

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
--Woody Allen

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
--Psalms 23:4

Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted.
--Percy Blysshe Shelley

Tis after death that we measure men.
--James Barron Hope

Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one Phillip
--Massinger

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
--Winston Churchill

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.
--Sir Edmund Spenser

And come he slow or come he fast, it is but Death who comes at last.
--Sir Walter Scott

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
--Joseph Hall

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
--Mark Twain

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
--Hugh Hamilton

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
--Lucan

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.
--William Mitford

Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?
--Thomas Gray




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