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Good men must die, but death can not kill their names.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

It is better to spend your time at funerals than at festivals. For you are going to die, and you should think about it while there is still time. .

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.

Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. .

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I am going to seek the great Perhaps.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. .