Death, that's life.

It's so ironic. The one's who claim they're evolving don't ever change.

To fear the inevitable is to be ignorant.

I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death.
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Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.

We are no one . We are destined to die .