Much as oblivion is the death of sorrow
So death is life's forgetfulness
Mihai Eminescu
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BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Joy, not sorrow.
Laughter, not tears.
Life, not death.
Love, not blame.
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Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is righ...
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JOHN JAKES 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.
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"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans...
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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 …everything we do is decent when the mind begins to forget — the design of life; and good when w...
DJUNA BARNES It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. The...
JAKOB BöHME There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow;
Best, while you ...
BEN JONSON No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, n...
HARUKI MURAKAMI So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly,...
LAURENCE STERNE How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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BERTOLT BRECHT Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a n...
LANGSTON HUGHES Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they n...
JOSé SARAMAGO What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is dea...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are sw...
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.
Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all...
RICK REMENDER Duty is heavy as a mountain but
Death is lighter than a feather.
JAPANESE PROVERB Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON ‘Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that.
"Cake or dea...
EDDIE IZZARD Death belongs to life as birth does
The walk is in the raising of the
foot as in the layi...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Death is a Dialogue between
The Spirit and the Dust.
“Dissolve” says Death,
The S...
EMILY DICKINSON People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
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 We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a ma...
JAVIER MARíAS Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenster...
TOM STOPPARD If people enjoyed getting wet in rain as much as they preferred smoking, chances of death by lightni...
YAMIN RASHEED You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
J.K. ROWLING I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, ...
BANKSY Forget your heaven, and your hell aswell. Cast out your morbid doubt and sleep a
hundered years. The...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Black for hunting through the night
For death and sorrow, the color’s white
Gold for a b...
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LOUISE GLüCK Fear of Death only Brings Fear of Death"
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PETRA HERMANS The death of one will bring sorrow to my soul, but the death of 100? That will only make me think ab...
ALAN LE There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt a...
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.
Why should life come in...
JOSEPH LEWIS Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.
I have grey eyes to her green,
a...
JANDY NELSON Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy p...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Rosencrantz: Do you think death could possibly be a boat?
Guildenstern: No, no, no...Death is......
TOM STOPPARD Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled.
Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank,...
RICK RIORDAN It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the l...
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 Unfortunately pain is a part of the cycle we call life, just as much as dying is...although pain is ...
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 The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cell...
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...
CARLY SIMON What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek f...
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 Life is like a sandwich!
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 It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?"
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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
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