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Death and dying
«According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Death and dying,
Fear,
Speech
| Keywords:
according, average, better off, casket, caskets, eulogies, eulogy, funeral, number, number one, Number Two, public, public speaking, sound, sound off, speaking, studies, well-off
«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.»
Author: John Donne
| About:
Death and dying,
Mankind
| Keywords:
bell, diminishes, involved, send, The Bell, tolling, tolls
«All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing»
Author: Maurice Maeterlinck
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
The Animals
«I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| About:
Addiction,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
addict, addiction, addictions, addicts, admire, at random, cause of death, disaster, disease, For some, keep down, likely, random, sudden, sudden death, total
«'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| About:
Death and dying,
Judgement
| Keywords:
abolition, demand, infallibility, penalties, penalty, proved, Til, til now
«Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Absence,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
absence, suffering
«All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
complaint, die hard, How Hard It Is, mouths
«And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Suffering,
Truth
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, award, condemned, condemned to death, depart, penalty, villainy