“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death”
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“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death”
“There's life in the old dog yet.”
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies ”
“All diseases run into one, old age”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead ”
“Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive”
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals”
“My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me”
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”
“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh”
“Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor”
“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy them”
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity”
“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come”
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal”
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight”
“In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night ”