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- Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXIV
- I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955), Meditations on Hunting
- Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.
- William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
- Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....
- Longfellow
- A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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