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• Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

  Sophocles

  Doe, Reverence, Mortals

  "The Beginning of All Wisdom: Timeless Advice from the Ancient Greeks". Book by Steven Stavropoulos, p. 69, December 15, 2008.

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• I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65, I had Cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

  George Burns

  Believe, People, Worry

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• Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Past, Men

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th ed., 1919.

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• Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

  John Green

  Winning, Player, Games

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• There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.

  Spike Milligan

  Time, Laughing, Three

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• We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

  Gerald Brenan

  Death, Hurt, Should

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• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  Harlan Ellison

  Belief

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Deathbird Stories”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Birth, Born

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Doctors, Captains, Ships

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• If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Men, Suffering, Clay

  William Jennings Bryan (1968). “The Credo of the Commoner”

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• Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

  Euripides

  Prayer, Lying, Men

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Land, Interesting, Poverty

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• Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
  And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
  For who would live so petty and unblest
  That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
  Rather than, screened by safe majority,
  Preserve his little life to little end,
  And never raise a rebel cry!

  John Galsworthy

  Sky, Majority, Rebel

  John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics

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• What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  World, Mortality, Form

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.243, New Directions Publishing

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• And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous,
  He must die a little death each morning,
  He must swallow his toad and study his vomit
  as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Morning, Poetry, Toads

  Delmore Schwartz (1989). “Last & Lost Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• To learn to die is an heroic work.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Death, Heroic

  Mercy Otis Warren (1790). “Poems, dramatic and miscellaneous”, p.147

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• If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

  Claude McKay

  Dignity, Spots, Hog

  Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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• That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Memories, Men, Long

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• When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

  Anne Michaels

  Men, Glasses, Secret

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.114, Emblem Editions

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• I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  "Professor with a past" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2007.

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• The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

  Larry Kramer

  Media, America, People

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• Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... Better to die than to live in slavery.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Fighting, Feminism, Slavery

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• Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Emotional, Sick, Minutes

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• It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

  Euripides

  Life And Death, Glory

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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