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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For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to read more
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live you life in a manner so that when you read more
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
