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Death II

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet
Loss and possession, death and life are one. There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hillaire Belloc
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Let us get rid of such old wives' tales as the one that tells us it is tragic to die before one's time. What time is that, I would like to know? Nature is the one who has granted us the loan of our lives, without setting any schedule for repayment. What has one to complain of if she calls in the loan when she will?
Cicero, Disputations, I, 39
Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are . . . Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 48
Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death even though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to so live our life that we will be prepared for death when it comes.
Author Unknown
Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.
Author Unknown
When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.
Author Unknown
Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.
Author Unknown
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon, Of Death
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frohman
We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.
John Hancock
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young,... have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford
Death is like a candle that is put out at the break of dawn.
Author Unknown
What the caterpillar thinks is the end of life, the butterfly thinks is just the beginning.
Author Unknown
Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

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