Archive for the ‘Death’ Category

Lord Byron on Death

Friday, July 11th, 2008

‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

- Lord Byron

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Erik H. Erikson on Death

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

- Erik H. Erikson

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Edward W. Howe on Death

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

- Edward W. Howe

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J. Robert Oppenheimer on Death

Friday, June 13th, 2008

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Alice Walker on Death

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

- Alice Walker

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Medgar Evers on Death

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.

- Medgar Evers

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Willa Cather on Death

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

- Willa Cather

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Thomas Mann on Death

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.

- Thomas Mann

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Ashley Montagu on Death

Monday, March 10th, 2008

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

- Ashley Montagu

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Mark Twain on Death

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

- Mark Twain

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