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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
God is becoming bitter, he envies man his mortality.
 Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortaility.  
 Because I could not stop for death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortaility. 
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, read more
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths read more
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
 Do not seek death. Death will find you. 
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.  
 Do not seek death. Death will find you. 
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. 
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.