A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

Life needs both: thorns and roses, days and nights, happiness/unhappiness, birth/death. Be a witness to it all and you will know something that is beyond birth, beyond death; something that is beyond darkness and beyond light; something that is beyond happiness, beyond unhappiness.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

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