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Socrates2 quotes
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is not known to anyone except God. — Socrates · 399 BCDeath is, you see, one or the other of two things: either to be dead is to be non-existent, as it were, and a dead person has no awareness of anything at all; or else, as we are told, the soul undergoes some sort of transformation, or exchanging of this present world for another. — Socrates · 399 BCJohn Dryden1 quote
Death in itself is nothing, but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. — John Dryden · 1675Rainer Maria Rilke1 quote
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1925Thomas Hobbes1 quote
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. — Thomas Hobbes · 1679Vladimir Nabokov1 quote
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. — Vladimir Nabokov · 1962W.B. Yeats1 quote
Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all. — W.B. Yeats · 1933William Shakespeare1 quote
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of? — William Shakespeare · 1616