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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

When I die, if the word ‘thong’ appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I’ve screwed up.

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.