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Fri 4 Oct, 2002 06:59 pm
'It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.'
~ Epicurus
Re:
Death
Rae wrote:'It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we
men live in a city without walls.'
~ Epicurus
The only certainty we have in life, is death
itself.
~ Pharon
Sad, but
true.....Metallica
Wherever I my roam.....same as.
'Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.'
~ H. L. Mencken
'There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.'
~ George Santayana
'The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.'
~ John Allston
'Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.'
~ Mark Twain
'The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal ~ every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open ~ this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
~ Washington Irving
'Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.'
~ Dag Hammarskjold
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
-Winston Churchill
'No other sun has lightened up my heaven,
No other star has ever shone for me;
All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given,
All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee.'
~ Emily Bronte
"As far as I am concerned there won't be a Beatles re-union as long as John Lennon remains dead".
George Harrison (Independent Magazine - 28 Oct l995)
For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
- Bhagavad Gita
Death is the greatest high of all...
Thats why it's last.
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