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Nature of death6 quotes
How long does a man spend dying? — Pablo Neruda · 1958We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever. — Petrarch · 1360Smoking... Kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life. — Brooke Shields · 1981All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. — John Donne · 1624Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time. — Ivan Turgenev · 1860Death5 quotes
How long does a man spend dying? — Pablo Neruda · 1958We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever. — Petrarch · 1360All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. — John Donne · 1624Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time. — Ivan Turgenev · 1860Dying1 quote
We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever. — Petrarch · 1360Inevitability of death1 quote
Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time. — Ivan Turgenev · 1860Life and death1 quote
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. — Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1922Smoking1 quote
Smoking... Kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life. — Brooke Shields · 1981