Death

(84 votes)   Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born

Martin Luther King Jr.

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(84 votes)   Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(84 votes)   I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Brigitte Bardot
1934-, French Film Actress

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(84 votes)   Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(82 votes)   The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(82 votes)   Where else can be seen more Death than in the world of Life where each moment exists only through its reference to Death?

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(81 votes)   When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

Source Unknown

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(80 votes)   Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(79 votes)   After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

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

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(79 votes)   Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

Walter Scott

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(79 votes)   What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author

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(77 votes)   Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(77 votes)   I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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

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(74 votes)   For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(72 votes)   Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready.

Robin Williams
1952-, American Actor, Comedian

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