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All Death Quotes
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
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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
57% of people like this quote
They 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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker
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