Death

(52 votes)   And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I: That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.

Oscar Wilde

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(52 votes)   As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(52 votes)   Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Thomas Gray
1716-1771, British Poet

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(52 votes)   How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(52 votes)   I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade.

Alan Seeger
1888-1916, American Poet, Soldier

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(52 votes)   I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffet
American Songwriter, Singer

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(52 votes)   The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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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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(51 votes)   I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(51 votes)   In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

Raoul Vaneigem
1934-, Belgian Situationist Philosopher

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(51 votes)   The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.

Nathaniel Lee
c.1649-1692, British Playwright

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(50 votes)   He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius
? - 66, Roman Writer

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(50 votes)   Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(50 votes)   Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke
American Poet, Author

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(49 votes)   Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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