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Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

In death a hero, as in life a friend!.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus." I said, "That's where I got my information about hell.".

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Love isn't who you can see yourself with, it's who you can't see yourself without.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

MUFFLED CADENCE The sound of shot. The roar of gun. Thy will be done blares the drum. The sudden shock. The news farflung. Thy will be done beats the drum. The hour of grief. The darkened sun. Thy will be done rolls the drum. The sound of shot. The grave begun. Thy will be done mourns the drum. ** by N Marshall Bertsch .