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"There is a deep, long, quiet sorrow in love, a pity for all dying things, and an awareness of our own life slipping down."

~Lisa Carver

"There is a time for all things, and a time to end all things."

~Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

"To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten."

~E.M. Cioran

"For life's not a paragraph, and death I think is no parentheses."

~E.E. Cummings
poet (1984—1962)

"Death is the universal complaint of the species."

"The Resolution Phase"

~Ellen Miller

"te-Owl: I can't believe he's dead. I remember Adrian once telling me that the Egyptians regarded death as a voyage...

Rorschach: Hurn. Nice idea if you can afford to go first class, with pharaohs... but judging by our departures, most of us travel steerage."

"Watchmen", Issue #10, D.C. Comics, July 1987

~Alan Moore

"Carpamus dulcia; post enim mortem cinis et fabula fies."
Seize that which is sweet; for after death dogs and lies feast.

~Perseus

"It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die."

"Non ille diu vixit, sed diu fuit."
He did not live a long time, but he lasted a long time.

"Ante senectutem curavi ut bene virerem; in senectute curo ut bene moriar."
Before old age I gave care to living a good life; in old age I give care to dying well.

~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(ca. 4 BCE—65 CE)

"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry."

~Samuel Langhome Clemens aka Mark Twain
(1835—1910)

"It is difficult to forget the dead — since only the dead forget."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society" ch.7 sect.3

"The wish of the living is that the dead forget them so that they in turn can forget the dead."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society" ch.7 sect.4

"To be transformed into a divinity is to forget."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society" ch.7 sect.4

"Afterall, it is up to the enemies, not to us, to find the reason for the deaths we inflict on them."

"From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society"

~Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

"We all die instantly."

~Steven Wright
comedian & actor (1955—)

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