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On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. -- Henry David Thoreau
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was observed to be deeply moved. "What!" said one of his disciples, "you weep at the death of an enemy?" "Ah, 'tis true," replied the great Stoic; "but you should see me smile at the death of a friend.". -- Ambrose Bierce
I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. -- William Shakespeare
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard. -- Henry David Thoreau
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously. -- Jane Green
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. -- David Hume
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. -- Jim Morrison
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. -- Alastair Campbell
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend. -- Roger Zelazny
In death a hero, as in life a friend! -- Alexander Pope
Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. -- John Steinbeck
My name is Death: the last best friend am I. -- Robert Southey
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you. -- William Penn
Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend! -- Rupert Brooke
What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh? -- Katie MacAlister
I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore. -- Liza Minnelli
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death. -- Ben Kingsley
Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. -- John Webster
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death. -- Mary Renault
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. -- Mary Renault
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. -- John Webster
But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death. -- Rupert Brooke
Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.] -- George Herbert
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. -- Francis Bacon
As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide? -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation. -- Siobhan Dowd
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life. -- J. K. Rowling
Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite. -- David Gemmell
When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end. -- Bob Dylan
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure. -- Mortimer Collins
A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death. -- Chanakya
What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. -- Robert E. Howard
The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death. -- William C. Brown
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. -- Carlos Castaneda
A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death. -- Chanakya
Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable. -- Rod McKuen
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best! -- Robert Burns
Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. -- Carl Sandburg

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