All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people read more

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a read more

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Every man dies - Not every man really lives.

Every man dies - Not every man really lives.

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die.

What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as read more

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

You can't put equipment on your gravestone.
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Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.

You can't put equipment on your gravestone.
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Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.