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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Being ill like this combines shock – this time I will die – with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.