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Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

— Maya Lin

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

— Seamus Heaney

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

— Alice Thomas Ellis

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

— Nora Ephron

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

— Marcus Aurelius

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

— Nagarjuna

Death, only, renders hope futile.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

— Rebecca West

✗Opposing Perspectives

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte