Death

(32 votes)   'Tis after death that we measure men.

James Barron Hope

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(173 votes)   'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam
1048-1131, Persian Astronomer, Poet

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(332 votes)   'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(117 votes)   ...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde;

John Donne

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(41 votes)   A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

George Gurdjieff
1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer

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(34 votes)   A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

James Duffecy

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(42 votes)   A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(42 votes)   A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.

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(58 votes)   A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Percival Arland Ussher
1899-1980, Irish Author, Critic

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(41 votes)   A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Percival Arland Usher

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(51 votes)   A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the people who attended his funeral were ignorant. Death changes the facts qualitatively but not quantitatively. One does not know more facts about a man because he is dead. But what one already knows hardens and becomes definite. We cannot hope for ambiguities to be clarified, we cannot hope for further change, we cannot hope for more. We are now the protagonists and we have to make up our minds.

John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic

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(47 votes)   A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

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(59 votes)   A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1928-, Colombian Writer

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(148 votes)   A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Hester Piozzi Thrale
1741-1821, British Writer

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(34 votes)   A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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