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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
Death and Dying
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Age and Aging
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.
Absence
Walter Savage Landor

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
Age and Aging
Walter Savage Landor

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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
Consciousness
D. H. Lawrence

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The first requisite for immortality is death.
Immortality
Stanislaw J. Lec

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The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.
Death and Dying
Nathaniel Lee

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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
Purpose
Primo Levi

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
Death and Dying
James Russell Lowell

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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Death and Dying
F. L. Lucan

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Debate is the death of conversation.
Argument
Emil Ludwig

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
Death and Dying
George Macdonald

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Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems
Problems
Romana Machado

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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Inheritance
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Death and Dying
Paul De Man

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
Death and Dying
Thomas Mann

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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
Astrology
Christopher Marlowe

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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Fame
Marcus Valerius Martial

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Death and Dying
W. Somerset Maugham

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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
Imagination
George Meredith

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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, the waking from a weary night of fevers unto truth and light.
Death and Dying
Joaquin Miller

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Death and Dying
John Milton

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Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!
Taxes and Taxation
Margaret Mitchell

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
Knowledge
Moliere

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Death and Dying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun