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''Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,''<br /> |
''Is birth: this is ordained! and mournest thou,''<br /> |
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''Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls''<br /> |
''Chief of the stalwart arm! for what befalls''<br /> |
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''Which could not otherwise befall?''|''[[ |
''Which could not otherwise befall?''|''[[Bhagavad Gita|The Bhagavad Gita]]''}} |
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{{quote|''I long for death, not because I seek peace, but because I seek the war eternal.''|'''Cardinal Armandus Helfire, "Reflections on the Long Death"''', ''[[ |
{{quote|''I long for death, not because I seek peace, but because I seek the war eternal.''|'''Cardinal Armandus Helfire, "Reflections on the Long Death"''', ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''}} |
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{{quote|''Curse the death in vain.''|'''Imperial Proverb''', ''[[ |
{{quote|''Curse the death in vain.''|'''Imperial Proverb''', ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''}} |
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{{quote|{{smallcaps|Don't think of it as dying. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.}}|[[Good Omens |
{{quote|{{smallcaps|Don't think of it as dying. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.}}|[[Good Omens|Death]]}} |
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{{quote|'''Mort''': My granny says that dying is like going to sleep.<br /> |
{{quote|'''Mort''': My granny says that dying is like going to sleep.<br /> |
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'''Death''': {{smallcaps|I wouldn't know. I have done neither.}}|'''Terry Pratchett:''' [[Discworld |
'''Death''': {{smallcaps|I wouldn't know. I have done neither.}}|'''Terry Pratchett:''' [[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]}} |
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{{quote|''It's the dream where you fall in six foot deep hole!''|''Black Wings of Death'' by [[Running Wild ( |
{{quote|''It's the dream where you fall in six foot deep hole!''|''Black Wings of Death'' by [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]]}} |
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{{quote|'''Edgar:''' ''Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.''|'''[[ |
{{quote|'''Edgar:''' ''Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.''|'''[[William Shakespeare]]''', ''[[King Lear]]''}} |
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To thee the reed is as the oak:<br /> |
To thee the reed is as the oak:<br /> |
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The sceptre, learning, physic, must<br /> |
The sceptre, learning, physic, must<br /> |
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All follow this, and come to dust.|'''[[ |
All follow this, and come to dust.|'''[[William Shakespeare]]:''' ''[[Cymbeline]]''}} |
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{{quote|''Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, nor reason, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the nether world where you are going.''|'''[[The Bible |
{{quote|''Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, nor reason, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the nether world where you are going.''|'''[[The Bible|Ecclesiastes 9:10]]'''}} |
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''She neither hears nor sees;<br /> |
''She neither hears nor sees;<br /> |
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''Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,<br /> |
''Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,<br /> |
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''With rocks, and stone, and trees.''|'''[[ |
''With rocks, and stone, and trees.''|'''[[William Wordsworth]]:''' ''A slumber did my spirit seal''}} |
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{{quote|''There was a time in my own melodramatic boyhood when I became quite fastidious in this respect. I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was. But we all lose a little of that fine edge of austerity and idealism which sharpened our spiritual standard in our youth. I have come to compromise with the tea-table and to be less insistent about the sofa. As long as a corpse or two turns up in the second, the third, nay even the fourth or fifth chapter, I make allowance for human weakness, and I ask no morAs soon as one is born, one starts dying.e. But a novel without any death in it is still to me a novel without any life in it.''|'''[[ |
{{quote|''There was a time in my own melodramatic boyhood when I became quite fastidious in this respect. I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was. But we all lose a little of that fine edge of austerity and idealism which sharpened our spiritual standard in our youth. I have come to compromise with the tea-table and to be less insistent about the sofa. As long as a corpse or two turns up in the second, the third, nay even the fourth or fifth chapter, I make allowance for human weakness, and I ask no morAs soon as one is born, one starts dying.e. But a novel without any death in it is still to me a novel without any life in it.''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton|GK Chesterton]]'''}} |
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{{quote|{{smallcaps|WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?}}|Death, in ''[[Discworld |
{{quote|{{smallcaps|WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?}}|Death, in ''[[Discworld|Reaper Man]]'' by Terry Pratchett}} |
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Revision as of 01:12, 9 April 2014
Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
—Mitch Ablom
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The end of birth is death; the end of death |
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
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I haven't earned my heavenly reward and I don't deserve eternal damnation. All I want is some peaceful rest.
—Paul Smith
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Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?" —Leo Buscaglia (who was not an expert in Egyptian religion)
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
—Isaac Asimov
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I long for death, not because I seek peace, but because I seek the war eternal.
—Cardinal Armandus Helfire, "Reflections on the Long Death", Warhammer 40000
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Curse the death in vain.
—Imperial Proverb, Warhammer 40000
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Don't think of it as dying. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.
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Mort: My granny says that dying is like going to sleep. —Terry Pratchett: Mort
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It's the dream where you fall in six foot deep hole!
—Black Wings of Death by Running Wild
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Charles Bronson: Is this revenge because I killed your father? |
Death is nothing to us, since while we exist, death is not present, and whenever death is present, we do not exist.
—Epicurus
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Edgar: Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
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Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, nor reason, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the nether world where you are going.
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A slumber did my spirit seal; —William Wordsworth: A slumber did my spirit seal
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"As soon as one is born, one starts dying."
—Luigi Pirandello, Henry VI
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Every year we pass the anniversary of our death.
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Death is nature's way of saying "Howdy." |
Death don't come knocking at the door. It's there in the morning when you wake up. Did you ever clip your fingernails, cut your hair? Then you experience death.
—Bob Dylan
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Death is just nature's way of telling you, "Hey, you're not alive anymore."
—Bull, Night Court''
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As the poets have mournfully sung, |
Death is just God's way of telling you not to be a wise guy. |
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? |
Death is just the ultimate expression of radical solipsism. |
Ella, Ella, Ella... Never knock on death's door... Ring the doorbell and run away. Death really hates that.
—from Doctor Doctor
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"Death is like finding the last jellybean in you bag... you wish you had more, but you don't."
—From the "Barbarian Verses"
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
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"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."
—David Searls
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
—William Somerset Maugham
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
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WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
—Death, in Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
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At the door of life, by the gate of breath, —Algernon Charles Swinburne
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