We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

John Updike

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Perhaps that is where our choice lies — in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.

Elana K. Arnold

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

All of life is a near-death experience.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aurelius

Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.

They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.

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