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- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
- Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
- One dies only once, and then for such a long time!
- Molière (1622 - 1673), Le Dépit Amoureux (1656)
- Death … It’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
- One does not learn how to die by killing others.
- Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848), Memoirs (1826-1841)
- When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), In Festing Jones, Samuel Butler : A Memoir
- As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude (1870)
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
- Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they ’re ended. - Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), The Double Gallant, Prologue
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