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Death and dying

«Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.»
«War would end if the dead could return.»
«Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.»
«Unbeing dead isn't being alive.»
«Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.»
«To die is landing on some distant shore.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Death and dying | Keywords: landing, landings
«Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell»
«To die will be an awfully big adventure.»
«To philosophise is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.»
«To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Death and dying