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DEATH: On your deathbed, you regret what you didn't do rather than what you did do. (Unknown Source)
DEATH: You never feel so alive as when you are close to death. (Platitude)
DEATH: Adults who are racked with death anxiety are . . . men and women whose family and culture have failed to knit the proper protective clothing for them to withstand the icy chill of mortality. (Irvin D. Yalom, U.S. psychiatrist and professor, Born 1931)
DEATH: In nature, there is no such thing as death. From each sad moment of decay, some forms of life arise. (Charles Mackay, Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter, 1814-1889)
DEATH: Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. (Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist, poet, translator and entomologist, 1899-1977)
DEATH: Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)
DEATH: You never feel so alive as when you are close to death. (Unknown Source)
DEATH: As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. (Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and painter, 1898-1936)
DEATH: Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
DEATH: With the honest knowledge that one day I will die can I ever truly begin to live. (R.A. Salvatore, U.S. author, Born 1959)
DEATH: Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. (Rabindranath Tagore, a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)
DEATH: It is not death that a man should fear, but the fear of never beginning to live. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)
DEATH: Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)
DEATH: The act of dying is one of the acts of life. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)
DEATH: Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
DEATH: The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. (Unknown source)
DEATH: The best way to get praise is to die. (Italian proverb)