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“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
Albert Einstein
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost”
Voltaire
“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.”
William Shakespeare
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”
Woody Allen
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
“Here's to a long life, and a merry one; a quick death, and an easy one; a pretty girl, and an honest one; a cold beer - and another one!”
Old Irish toast
“It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good”
John Barrymore
“Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.”
Gary Mark Gilmore