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{{quote|''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''' }}

''Which could not otherwise befall?''|''[[Bhagavad Gita|The Bhagavad Gita]]''}}

{{quote|''There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.'' |'''[[Isaac Asimov]]''' }}

{{quote|''I haven't earned my heavenly reward and I don't deserve eternal damnation. All I want is some peaceful rest.''|'''Paul Smith''' }}

''The second was, "Did you find joy?"''|'''Leo Buscaglia''' (who [[You Fail History Forever|was not an expert]] in Egyptian religion)}}

{{quote|''Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. ''|'''Isaac Asimov''' }}

{{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 40,000]]''}}

{{quote|''Curse the death in vain.''|'''Imperial Proverb''', ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''}}

{{quote|{{smallcaps|Don't think of it as dying. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.}}|[[Good Omens|Death]]}}

'''Death''': {{smallcaps|I wouldn't know. I have done neither.}}|'''Terry Pratchett:''' [[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]}}

{{quote|''It's the dream where you fall in six foot deep hole!''|''Black Wings of Death'' by [[Running Wild (band)|Running Wild]]}}

''Winds somewhere safe to sea.''|'''Algernon Charles Swinburne''', ''The Garden of Proserpine'' }}

{{quote|'''Charles Bronson:''' Is this revenge because I [[You Killed My Father|killed your father]]?<br />

'''Jan-Michael Vincent:''' You killed him? I thought he just died.|''[[The Mechanic]]''}}

{{quote|''Death is nothing to us, since while we exist, death is not present, and whenever death is present, we do not exist.''|'''Epicurus'''}}

{{quote|'''Edgar:''' ''Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.''|'''[[William Shakespeare]]''', ''[[King Lear]]''}}

All follow this, and come to dust.|'''[[William Shakespeare]]:''' ''[[Cymbeline]]''}}

{{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]]'''}}

''With rocks, and stone, and trees.''|'''[[William Wordsworth]]:''' ''A slumber did my spirit seal''}}

{{quote|''Every breath we draw wards off the death that is constantly intruding upon us. In this way we fight with it every moment, and again, at longer intervals, through every meal we eat, every sleep we take, every time we warm ourselves. In the end, death must conquer, for we became subject to him through birth, and he only plays for a little while with his prey before he swallows it up. We pursue our life, however, with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, as we blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although we know perfectly well that it will burst.''|'''Arthur Schopenhauer:''' ''The World as Will and Representation''}}

{{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 morAsmore. As 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]]'''}}

{{quote|''"As soon as one is born, one starts dying."''|Luigi Pirandello, ''Henry VI''}}

{{quote|''Every year we pass the anniversary of our death.''|[[Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension|B. Banzai]]}}

{{quote|''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}}

{{quote|''Death is just nature's way of telling you, "Hey, you're not alive anymore."''|Bull, ''[[Night Court'']]}}

{{quote|''Essentially, evil is greed. Greed for power, greed for control, greed for property, greed for sex. Sex is an excuse for death. We only have sex because we die. If we didn't die, we wouldn't need to reproduce. So every time you're aroused by the shape of a woman's hips or a flick of her hair, that's simply because we are going to die. The whole thing is fueled by death.''|Robyn Hitchcock}}

{{quote|''Ella, Ella, Ella... Never knock on death's door... Ring the doorbell and run away. Death '''really''' hates that.''|from ''[[Doctor Doctor]]''}}

{{quote|''No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.''|John Donne}}

{{quote|''"Death is like finding the last jellybean in you bag... you wish you had more, but you don't."''|From the "Barbarian Verses"}}

{{quote|''We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so at the moment after death.''|Nathaniel Hawthorne}}

{{quote|''"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."''|[[wikipedia:Wilson Mizner|Wilson Mizner]]}}

{{quote|''"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean."''|David Searls}}

{{quote|''At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendour of the colourless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. Terrified, you will flee from the radiance... Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the boundless Light of this true Reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved!''|''Tibetan Book of the Dead'' (c. 780 A.D.)}}

{{quote|''Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.''|William Somerset Maugham}}

{{quote|''It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.''|Marcus Aurelius}}

{{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}}

''There are worse things waiting for men than death.''|Algernon Charles Swinburne}}

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