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Death and dying
«I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.»
Author: Will Shriner
(Comedian)
| About:
Death and dying,
Funny
| Keywords:
car, Die in, grandfather, grandfathers, passenger, passengers, screamed, screaming, screams, sleep, sleeping car, sleep out, sleep over, The Cars, yelling
«I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.»
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Composer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Happiness
| Keywords:
graciously, granting, unlock, unlocks
«I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.»
«I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below.»
Author: Mario Cuomo
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
crushed, great grandfather, jumped, pushcart
«I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
campaign, campaigned, campaigning, campaigns, campaign of, contributing, destruction, event, factor, factor in, military, military campaign, military man, The Brain, the senses
«I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying,
Hunger
| Keywords:
a hundred thousand, hundred thousand
«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 have not lived.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
came, deliberately, discover, essential, facts, facts of life, front, fronted, fronts, have-not, Into the Woods, lived, out front, Teach, The Facts of Life, went, wished, woods
«I know that at times it may not have seemed like a home, but I think we can agree that today a new climate has taken hold in relations between Israel and the United Nations.»
«I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
cabbages, caring, planting
