4 Quotes by Samuel Butler about death

  • Author Samuel Butler
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    Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognize a past and a present as resembling one another.

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    When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

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    To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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    The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

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