“Death is an old joke, but it comes like new to everyone.”
Source: Father and Sons (1862), Ch. 27.
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Ivan Turgenev 7
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“Still, you must know that the fear of death is irrational; death comes to everyone.”
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 25 (p. 235)
“[ Old men go to death; death comes to young men. ]”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost.”
As quoted in Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras by John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook. (1999)
The Golden Verses
Context: Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.
Entra una nueva pena y las viejas penas de la casa la reciben calladas, no muertas.
Voces (1943)
2005-09, Address at Stanford University (2005)
Context: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
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