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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend ...
One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love.
Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
La commedia รจ finita. [The comedy is ended.]
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.