Quotes about life and death
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Richard Feynman1918–1988Often credited to Evan SpigelmanLife is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Richards Topical Encyclopedia (1951)It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allenborn 1935Getting Even (1971)Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Plato429–349 BCDialogues, PhaedoTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to T. W. Higginson (late 1872); Letters (1958) p. 380, no. 381Absence and death are the same—only that in death there is no suffering.
Walter Savage Landor1775–1864Often credited to Theodore RooseveltIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Carl Jung1875–1961Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963), p. 326
