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Death and dying

«Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death»
Author: Ludwig Borne | About: Change, Death and dying | Keywords: lasting, perpetual
«Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.»
«No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short»
«Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.»
«No man knows when his hour will come; As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them»
Author: Bible | About: Death and dying | Keywords: net, snare, trapped, unexpectedly
«No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.»
«One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love»
«Old men go to death; but death comes to young men»
Author: Proverb | About: Death and dying
«No use in flogging a dead horse»
Author: Proverb | About: Death and dying | Keywords: Dead Horse, flogged, flogging
«No young man believes he shall ever die»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Death and dying | Keywords: young man