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31. “If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?”

Rabindranath Tagore

Courage, Sacrifice, Life Purpose, Mortality, Noble Living

32. “Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone—companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Loneliness, Companionship, Mortality, Connection, Solace

33. “Death’s stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Mortality, Value, Life, Reflection, Spirituality

34. “Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Legacy, Love, Mortality, Spirituality, Human Connection

35. “There is no “next” after you are dead and gone from your own world.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Mortality, Existence, Finality, Life, Reflection

36. “The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Mortality, Beauty, Ephemeral, Loss, Acceptance

37. “Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Life, Childhood, Mortality, Laughter, Metaphor

38. “No hero is mortal till he dies.”

W.H. Auden

Heroism, Mortality, Legacy, Life, Human Condition

39. “And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”

W.H. Auden

Mortality, Memory, Existence, Significance, Human Connection

40. “Composing mortals with immortal fire.”

W.H. Auden

Creativity, Mortality, Art, Inspiration, Poetic Imagery

41. “Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral.”

W.H. Auden

Time, Beauty, Mortality, Childhood, Ephemerality

42. “We who must die demand a miracle. How could the Eternal do a temporal act, The Infinite become a finite fact? Nothing can save us that is possible: We who must die demand a miracle.”

W.H. Auden

Mortality, Miracles, Eternity, Human Condition, Paradox

43. “Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.”

W.H. Auden

Fear, Disease, Mortality, Poetic Imagery, Human Vulnerability

44. “The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.”

W.H. Auden

Death, Mortality, Observation, Finality, Human Perception

45. “O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.”

W.H. Auden

Time, Deception, Mortality, Human Limitations, Philosophical Insight

46. “Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.”

W.H. Auden

Lust, Mortality, Time, Distraction, Human Nature

47. “Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”

W.H. Auden

Art, Connection, History, Mortality, Cultural Continuity

48. “The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.”

W.H. Auden

Mortality, Domestic Imagery, Surrealism, Death, Everyday Objects

49. “The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.”

W.H. Auden

Despair, Isolation, Mortality, Defeat, Historical Perspective

50. “Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.”

W.H. Auden

Death, Metaphor, Tranquility Disrupted, Mortality, Poetic Imagery

51. “What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.”

Jack Kerouac

Reality, Mortality, Philosophical Musing, Existence, Impermanence

52. “And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.”

Jack Kerouac

Mortality, Universality, Cosmic Impermanence, Shared Fate, Time

53. “Pretty girls make graves.”

Jack Kerouac

Beauty, Mortality, Danger, Attraction, Poetic Warning

54. “I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?”

Jack Kerouac

Mortality, Essence, Vanity, Human Nature, Impermanence

55. “We are nothing. – Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. – You and me.”

Jack Kerouac

Nihilism, Mortality, Human Insignificance, Shared Fate, Existential Thoughts

56. “We fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?”

Jack Kerouac

Existential Angst, Loss, Mortality, Disbelief, Life’s Purpose

57. “I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.”

Jack Kerouac

Preference, Mortality, Travel, Risk-taking, Personal Choice

58. “I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?”

Jack Kerouac

Youth, Mortality, Fear, Life, Philosophy

59. “I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.”

Jack Kerouac

Writing, Mortality, Purpose, Existence, Literature

60. “The story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

Jack Kerouac

Love, Life, Sadness, Mortality, Narrative

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