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“It's not what I'd want for at my funeral. When I die, I just want them to plant me somewhere warm. And then when the pretty women walk over my grave I would grab their ankles, like in that movie.”
Neil Gaiman
Death
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Humor
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Afterlife
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Fantasy
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Mischief
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“Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.”
Douglas Adams
Death
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Surprise
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Humor
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Afterlife
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Narrative Hook
3.
“He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Morality
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Temptation
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Afterlife
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Regret
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Wasted Opportunities
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“I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Death
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Awakening
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Light
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Afterlife
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Existential Belief
5.
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
John Milton
Death
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Eternity
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Afterlife
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Transition
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Metaphor
6.
“A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.”
John Milton
Death
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Sleep
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Immortality
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Transition
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Afterlife
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“Hell has no benefits, only torture.”
John Milton
Hell
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Suffering
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Punishment
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Afterlife
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Divine Judgment
8.
“The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Fate
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Philosophy
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Afterlife
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Justice
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Existential Musings
9.
“The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.”
William Blake
Imagination
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Eternity
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Afterlife
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Philosophical Insight
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Spiritual Vision
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Poetic Metaphor
10.
“I live in a hole here but God has a beautiful mansion for me elsewhere.”
William Blake
Faith
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Afterlife
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Hope
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Philosophical Contrast
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Spiritual Comfort
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Metaphorical Expression
11.
“I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.”
William Blake
Death
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Afterlife
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Desire
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Philosophical Reflection
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Spiritual Journey
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Poetic Metaphor
12.
“Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.”
Orson Scott Card
Afterlife
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Mystery
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Caution
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Spirituality
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Ethical Dilemma
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Unknown Realm
13.
“Dead men don’t bite.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Death
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Finality
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Afterlife
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Mortality
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Life Truths
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Self-reflection
14.
“When I die I won’t go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.”
Isaac Asimov
Death
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Afterlife
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Nothingness
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Belief
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Existence
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Philosophy
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“The only consciousness that persists in the hereafter is the consciousness of pain.”
Vladimir Nabokov
Consciousness
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Pain
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Afterlife
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Philosophy
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Suffering
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Reality
16.
“Death is a mystery, and burial is a secret.”
Stephen King
Death Mystery
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Burial Secrets
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Afterlife
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Spirituality
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Mortality
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Fear
17.
“We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: “Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes.””
Helen Keller
Life And Death
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Spirituality
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Death
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Legacy
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Immortality
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Afterlife
18.
“Look how our young people commit suicide, without asking themselves Hamlet’s question what there is beyond, without a sign of such a question, as though all that relates to the soul and to what awaits us beyond the grave had long been erased in their minds and buried under the sands.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Youth Crisis
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Soul Questioning
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Suicide
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Hamlet
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Soul
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Afterlife
19.
“One bright morning when my work is over I will fly away home.”
Bob Marley
Hope
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Peace
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Journey
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Afterlife
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Work
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Rest
20.
“She died – this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.”
Emily Dickinson
Death
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Afterlife
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Angels
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Transition
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Loss
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Journey
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“The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.”
Emily Dickinson
Death
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Afterlife
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Memory
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Hope
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Return
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Eternity
22.
“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.”
George R. R. Martin
Middle Earth
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Afterlife Choice
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Heaven Preference
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Earth
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Choice
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Afterlife
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“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Ayn Rand
Death
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Heaven
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Afterlife
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Hope
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Philosophy
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Belief
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“It is required of every man,” the ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.”
Charles Dickens
Spirit
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Life
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Redemption
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Duty
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Afterlife
25.
“There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Heaven
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Afterlife
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Unfinished
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Hope
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Remembrance
26.
“There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.”
Paulo Coelho
Afterlife
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Beliefs
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Spirituality
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Faith
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Existence
27.
“I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain
Heaven
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Hell
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Friendship
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Humor
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Afterlife
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“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
Mark Twain
Afterlife
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Humor
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Heaven
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Companionship
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Irony
29.
“If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.”
Mark Twain
Humor
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Heaven
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Smoking
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Rebellion
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Afterlife
30.
“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
Oscar Wilde
Heaven
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Friendship
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Humor
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Afterlife
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Preference
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