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Letter "D" » Death and dying
«Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.»
«Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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Death and dying
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began, birth, hurried, hurrying, walking
«Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.»
Author: John Sloan
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Death and dying
«So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
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softly, succeeded, very softly
«Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.»
«Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.»
Author: Pope Paul VI
(Pope)
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at the start, Day After Tomorrow, dying, every day, limit, might, minute, right to life, somebody, start, The Day After Tomorrow, The Limit, tomorrows, to the limit, whatever
«Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live»
«Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all»
«Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages»
«Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Death and dying
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died young, precept, sounds, strange, Too Old
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