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Mark Twain2 quotes
Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. — Mark Twain · 1894Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old, and weary, and broken of heart, whose burdens be heavy upon them, and who would lie down and be at rest. — Mark Twain · 1883Artabanus1 quote
When life is so burdensome, death has become of man a sought-after refuge. — Artabanus · 430 BCJohn Clare1 quote
Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain;
The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain. — John Clare · 1841Robert Burns1 quote
O Death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best! — Robert Burns · 1784Sophocles1 quote
Not to be born surpasses thought and speech.
The second best is to have seen the light
And then to go back quickly whence we came. — Sophocles · 406 BCSpartacus1 quote
Death is the only freedom a slave knows. That's why he's not afraid of it. — Spartacus · 1960Tennessee Williams1 quote
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other. — Tennessee Williams · 1955William Shakespeare1 quote
He that dies pays all debts. — William Shakespeare · 1616