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"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

"Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"
-- Aldous Huxley

"Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life."
-- Amos Traver

"Death is a distant rumor to the young."
-- Andy Rooney

"Most people would rather die than think: many do."
-- Bertrand Russell

"Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life."
-- Charles Frohman

"We all have to die some day, if we live long enough."
-- Dave Farber

"We are all dead men on leave."
-- Eugene Levine

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
-- Francis Bacon

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"When we can't dream any longer, we die."
-- Goldman Emma

"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."
-- Henry Fielding

"The world is the mirror of myself dying."
-- Henry Miller

"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."
-- Jean Paul Richter

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."
-- John Milton

"You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them."
-- Joseph H. Choate

"Our life is made by the death of others."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
-- Leonardo Da Vinci

"In my end is my beginning."
-- Mary Stuart

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
-- Plato

"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one."
-- Vladimir Nabokov