Reverend Genes

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> 1940-06-07 Australia

bendy

i think mortality is bad

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'Thank Heaven! the crisis, the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called 'Living' is conquered at last.'

Edgar Allan Poe

'For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.'

William Penn

'I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.'

Ernest Renan

'As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.'

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

'Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.'

William Mitford

'What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.'

Brigham Young

'It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.'

Henry Fielding

'To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.'

Samuel Butler

'The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?'

Alice James

'So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.'

Cornelius Nepos

'What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indivisible Self must wander on and on from death to death.'

Katha Upanishad

'Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.'

Robert Bolt

'Nothing is certain but death and taxes. Of the two, taxes happen annually.'

Joel Fo

'Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.'

Gary Mark Gilmore

'While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.'

Leonardo Da Vinci

'If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?'

Stephen Levine

'We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.'

Joseph Jefferson

'It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.'

Samuel Johnson

'We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.'

Unknown

'The undiscovered country from whose born no traveler returns.'

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

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