Quote#Death
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. We change our…
Quote byOliver Lodge · 1851–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Raymond, or Life and Death (1916), Raymond, p. 298.
English (original)
Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. We change our state at birth, and come into the world of air and sense and myriad existence; we change our state at death and enter a region of—what?
— Oliver Lodge
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