We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
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But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can read more
But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man.
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
(Death levels sceptre and the law.)
Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
(Death levels sceptre and the law.)
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
