Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow
So death is life's forgetfulness


Mihai Eminescu

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Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame.
LISA SCHROEDER
Glossa

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All is old and all is new;
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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LYNN CAINE
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT
Death isn't funny."
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
[HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch
Which hurts and is desired.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The price of living seems to always be death."
Tohin stood, joints popping audibly. "And that i...
KIERSTEN WHITE
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DJUNA BARNES
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JAKOB BöHME
There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
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HARUKI MURAKAMI
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LAURENCE STERNE
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
WILL DURANT
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a n...
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AL GOLDSTEIN
The end of birth is death; the end of death
Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,
Chi...
BHAGAVAD GITA
LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation?

It is
to master death.
ANNE CARSON
Psychiatry causes so much death.
KATE MILLETT
Samurai are born to die.

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RICK REMENDER
Duty is heavy as a mountain but
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JAPANESE PROVERB
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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"Cake or dea...
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The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the layi...
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The S...
EMILY DICKINSON
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FREDRIK BACKMAN
Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK
When Death hath poured oblivion through my veins,
And brought me home, as all are brought, to lie...
MADISON CAWEIN
Death is the end of life; ah why
Should life all labour be? . . .
All things have rest, and ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
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JAVIER MARíAS
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Guildenster...
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YAMIN RASHEED
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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BANKSY
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AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Black for hunting through the night
For death and sorrow, the color’s white
Gold for a b...
CASSANDRA CLARE
...panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic list...
LOUISE GLüCK
Fear of Death only Brings Fear of Death"
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ALAN LE
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NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Death without dread of death is welcome death
SENECA
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted.
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JOSEPH LEWIS
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MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
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Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is......
TOM STOPPARD
Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.

Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
RICK RIORDAN
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ARUNDHATI ROY
It is not the certainty of death that we fear but more so the certainty of fear that death brings.
EMANOUHL
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not wit...
EPICURUS
ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE OURS. BUT WE MUST CARE. FOR IF WE DO NOT CARE, WE DO NOT EXIST. IF WE DO NO...
TERRY PRATCHETT
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so muc...
CHARLES DE GAULLE
How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless. (letter to Edith Sitw...
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER
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DEYON ANTEKO PITTER
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER
Love is blind ,so is death.
KOWSALAPATHY
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people sho...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
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H. ROBERT HORVITZ
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that whic...
ABU BAKR
The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON
Life is eternal, love is immortal and death is only a horizon.
Life is eternal as we move into t...
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ZANE GREY
...we, the goths, do know how death, depression, despair, grief, misery and sorrow feels.
OUTCAST ANGEL
THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ATMAN, THE SOUL.


The first meaning is: in this world, only...
OSHO
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Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you p...
ALLAN RUFUS
Death is the bride of Life and Suicide is the brother of Death.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
WASIF ALI WASIF
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ANGEL RAMON MEDINA
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
DEATH is big business.
Thank god for capitalism.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracl...
VICTORIA KAHLER
There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the li...
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHT
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life
BERTOLT BRECHT
To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death i...
PAUL AUSTER
Death is buried there into death
Hunger strikes on its own last breath
No spine to shiver...
MUNIA KHAN
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation,...
MARY ROACH
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corp...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
PROVERB
Equilibrium is the state of death, only chaos produces life
The Ancient Greeks have been driven...
STéPHANE LUPASCO
I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institution...
GEORGE CARLIN
AFRAID? Of whom am I afraid? Not death; for who is he? The porter of my father’s lodge As much aba...
EMILY DICKINSON
Death is not the opposite of life rather death is the beginning of life
ETC WANYANWU

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