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“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.”
“You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.”
“Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".”
“As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
“As men we are all equal in the presence of death.”
“Death - the last voyage the longest the best.”
“For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.”
“I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.”
“I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.”
“In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.”
“In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”
“It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
“Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.”
“It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.”
“If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.”
“Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.”
“One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.”
“The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.”
“When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.”
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.”
