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Death

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. – Ernest Hemingway

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. – Edgar Allan Poe

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. – Sun Tzu

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. – Henry David Thoreau

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. – George Carlin

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. – Plato

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. – George Bernard Shaw

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. – Tupac Shakur

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering. – Theodore Roosevelt

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. – Albert Camus

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. – Albert Camus

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. – Elbert Hubbard

Death is not the worst that can happen to men. – Plato

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. – Thomas A. Edison

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. – Albert Camus

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. – Albert Camus

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley