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Famous quotes containing the word dies:

“Of a couple
who have grown together,
sharing equally
their pleasures and pains
and whose love
in time
blooms fully,
the one who dies lives on;
the other one is dead.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

“Man is but a reed, the feeblest one in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him—a vapor, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)