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  • John Donne Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Joseph Hall Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
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  • Jean Paul Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Eric Hoffer Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Francis Bacon Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Paul Theroux Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
    Paul Theroux
    American travel writer and novelist (1941 - )
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  • Joaquin Miller Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
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  • Aeschylus Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bayard Taylor Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Woody Allen Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.
    Documentary Mandela (1994)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • George Herbert Death is still working like a mole, and digs my grave at each remove.
    The temple (1633)
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Joseph Bayly Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance.
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  • Bryant H. McGill Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • N. Rowe Death is the privilige of human nature and life without it were not worth our taking.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Seneca Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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