Death

(136 votes)   But what can be more resembling to Life than Death? Nothing! And yet, they both obey a destiny which is a shadow of God, as we are too, except that this shadow can no longer be defined as an opposite to the other two, but as destiny, because we cannot think above a bivalent logic. Otherwise, Destiny too would be one of the opposites of Life or Death, because he too, just as the other two is a shadow of God, with the only difference that it’s a shadow that can be sighted through a superior logic.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(136 votes)   When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

Sir Winston Churchill

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(129 votes)   Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pier Paolo Pasolini
1922-1975, Italian Filmmaker, Author

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(128 votes)   Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(124 votes)   Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown; all's fish that comes to his net; he throws at all, and sweeps stakes; he's no mower that takes a nap at noon-day, but drives on, fair weather or foul, and cuts down the green grass as well as the ripe corn: he's neither squeamish nor queesy-stomach d, for he swallows without chewing, and crams down all things into his ungracious maw; and you can see no belly he has, he has a confounded dropsy, and thirsts after men's lives, which he gurgles down like mother's milk.

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

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(122 votes)   Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(121 votes)   But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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(121 votes)   Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

Persian Proverbs
Sayings of Persian Origin

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

John Donne

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(114 votes)   When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(112 votes)   To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(111 votes)   Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

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

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(107 votes)   Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(103 votes)   If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a ''wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(103 votes)   The cardinal elements possess this title through the fact that they are the last frontier to the level of awareness through which that world can be defined. Life and Death are cardinal because nothing can include them in its structure by becoming an opposable reference, and yet what can be more opposable than waking up from this dream with world and destiny? Destiny! Waking up into Destiny.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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