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Death Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care…
- Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.
- The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
- Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless…
- We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
- Death should take me while I am in the mood.
- Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his…
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- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden