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“Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible.”
“Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood.”
“Death with dignity" is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, dea...”
“I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I e...”
“You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again.”
“Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.”
“Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.”
“The ‘Elves’ are ‘immortal’, at least as far as this world goes: and hence are concerned rather with the griefs and burdens of deathlessness in time and change, than with death.”
“I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension.”
“Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.”
“But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.”
“I have never believed that God “makes” bad things happen. Death happens to everyone, not as a punishment, but because we are not meant to stay on this earth forever. As a result we are vulnerable r...”
“DO you think it hurts to die?" Not as much as it hurts to live, Trixie thought.”
“There Albine lay, panting, exhausted by love, her hands clutched closer and closer to her heart, breathing her last. She parted her lips, seeking the kiss which should obliterate her, and then the ...”
“Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it lasts a whole lifetime. Rich people are drunk in a different way, they can't understand this frenzy...”
“Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?”
“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it w...”
“it is true, in bad time everything turn away from person.My time is really bad .today again even death turn face from me and go away.Hate it”
“those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn't make them sad at all”
“We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.”
