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“In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.”
“I hate funerals and would not attend my Own if it could be avoided but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his fina...”
“If this is dying I don't think much of it.”
“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.”
“It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'”
“Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.”
“There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.”
“Though this may be play to you Tis death to us.”
“Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.”
“Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.”
“Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.”
“Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.”
“Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.”
“The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.”
“We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.”
“There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.”
“I am dying Egypt dying.”
“Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep.”
“Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.”
“To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”
