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" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. "

Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley

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" If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. "

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" Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! "

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" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "

" Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. "

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" We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat. "

" Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. "

" If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. "

" Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. "

" A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. "

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" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "

" I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. "

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" One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death. "

" Hell, madam, is to love no longer. "

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" Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. "

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" At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts. "

George Harrison