Death

(38 votes)   Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(38 votes)   Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.

William Ernest Henley
1849-1903, British Poet, Critic, Editor

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(38 votes)   Science says: We must live, and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: We must die, and seeks how to make us die well

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo

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(38 votes)   There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.

Unknown

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(38 votes)   We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist

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(37 votes)   Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Joseph Bayly
American Author and Speaker on the Subject of Death.

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(37 votes)   If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

Muriel Spark
1918-, British Novelist

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(37 votes)   If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

Dean Smith
American College Basketball Coach

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(37 votes)   The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.

Kabbalah
BC 1200?-12700? AD, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine

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(36 votes)   Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.

Joseph Bayly
American Author and Speaker on the Subject of Death.

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(36 votes)   How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?

Grant M. Bright
British-Born American Engineer

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(36 votes)   In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John J. Ingalls

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(35 votes)   Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!

Thomas F. Healey

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(35 votes)   Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

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

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(35 votes)   There is nothing to fear from the gods. There is nothing to fear from death. Pain can be endured. Happiness can be attained.

Epicuris

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