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A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#doctors #health #death

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly." Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from 'Songs of Muad'Dib ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#gambling #rousseau #death

Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

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If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does. ↗

— John Green

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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over ↗

— V.S. Naipaul

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One of my predecessors used to have people torn to death by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#cause-and-effect #generations #death

I understood that Death wasn’t the one to be feared. War was the one that laid waste to lives. Death was just the cleanup guy, the janitor, the final act. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

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Imam Hussein Ibn Ali al-Shaheed said: Death with dignity is better than life with humility. ↗

— Allama Majlisi Biharol Anwar Vol.

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