If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Copy Quote View & ShareThey tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Copy Quote View & ShareNo one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Copy Quote View & ShareNone of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Copy Quote View & ShareDeath is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
Copy Quote View & ShareI've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
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