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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The only time to be positive you have the right to be negative is when you’re 6 feet under.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.