In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
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To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid
and deeds left undone.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid
and deeds left undone.
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?.
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.
Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.
Everybody dies. Not everybody ever really lives.
