It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
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