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We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that…

— Blaise Pascal

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

— Novalis

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

— Oswald Chambers

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are…

— Aldous Huxley

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits…

— Al-Ghazali

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to…

— Benjamin Franklin

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

— Neil Young

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is…

— Epicurus

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

— Tryon Edwards

“Consider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to the world after we die. If self-interests were the primary source of meaning…

— Atul Gawande