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The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise Pascal on death

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen on death

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen on death

When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
Morihei Ueshiba on death

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on death

To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on death

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on death

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck on death

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on death

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on death

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats on death

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton on death

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats on death

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
George Santayana on death

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro on death

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
Dwight L. Moody on death

Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Guru Nanak on death

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
Hedy Lamarr on death

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot on death

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson on death