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Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.