Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
Copy QuoteThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Copy Quote View & ShareLife is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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