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Those who focused on the shock of shards as the phoenix bird burst from his shell nearly missed the sight of his wondrous maiden flight as he soared up and away and out of sight.

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.

Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.

A jade curtain of willow fronds parts world of green earth from that of blue pond A grey curtain of morning mist separates turquoise waters from blue sky A more slender veil is at the portal hiding the paradise of the immortal.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.