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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart. Eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise. He is always ready to go.
Because of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Death cancels everything but trut, and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred -- it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest.
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time. Iin the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. "I'm looking for a loop-hole," he explained.
Death is the last enemy. Once we've gotten past that, I think everything will be all right.
Who doesn't desire his father's death?