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Death is near and our mutual company is short.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?

Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word. .

For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.

Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.

Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.