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• If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Remembrance

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Gambling, Sound, Doe

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• My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

  Anne Rice

  Flower, White, House

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• Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Im Sorry, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

  Taitetsu Unno

  Choices, Body, Earth

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• Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Children, Laughing

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.198, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Death, Remembrance, Eulogy

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Dying, Fulfillment In Life

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

  Steve Forbert

  Strange, Life Is, Said

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

  David Sarnoff

  Death, Fear, Eulogy

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• The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doe, Chiefs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.58, Harvard University Press

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• The stars are not wanted now, put out every one Pack up the moon & dismantle the sun.

  W. H. Auden

  Stars, Moon, Sun

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.87, DEBOLS!LLO

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• I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Grieving, Eulogy

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• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  Journal, 25 Oct. 1836

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• Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

  George Santayana

  Men, Dying, Half

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• I am going to seek a grand perhaps.

  Francois Rabelais

  Francois Rabelais' last words as quoted in Peter Anthony Motteux "Life of Rabelais", 1694.

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• A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Kindness, Eulogy, Doe

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• There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved, and not the reverse.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Belief, Problem

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• Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

  Homer

  Heart, Suffering, Bears

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

  George Ade

  Country, Popular Entertainment, Cities

  Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1928.

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• If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Sad, Flower, Sunday

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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