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In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

— Henry Miller

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

— E. M. Forster

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

— Origen

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

— Stewart Alsop

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

— Ralph Ellison

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

— Jean Toomer

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

— Henry David Thoreau

✗Opposing Perspectives

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

— Friedrich Nietzsche