Death

(49 votes)   My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Kin Hubbard
1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist

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(49 votes)   Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me.

Epitaph

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(49 votes)   Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

Dylan Thomas
1914-1953, Welsh Poet

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(48 votes)   Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(48 votes)   I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(48 votes)   No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(48 votes)   Suicide is a person's privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime. It's your right if you want to, though it doesn't get you anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe
American Singer 1926-1962

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(48 votes)   The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.

Chief Seattle
1786-1866, American Indian Chief of the Suquamish

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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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(47 votes)   Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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(46 votes)   Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.

Alexander Maclaren
1826-1910, British Preacher

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(46 votes)   So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Cornelius Nepos
1st Century BC

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(46 votes)   There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet, Critic

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(46 votes)   What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(45 votes)   He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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