Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

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Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. — Harry A. Blackmun

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

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Drowned in a vat of whiskey... Oh Death, where is thy sting? ― W.C. Fields

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The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. – Rabindranath Tagore

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Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ― Mary Renault

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