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" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

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" I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. "

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" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. "

" We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. "

" The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. "

" It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers. "

" But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. "

" The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. "

" The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. "

Mary Catherine Bateson

" Death is the tyrant of the imagination. "

" Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. "

" The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer. "

" 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

" If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. "

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" When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death. "

" You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. "

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

" When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. "

" Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? "

" The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary. "

" Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. "

Arthur Koestler

" There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? "

" But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. "

" When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. "

Theodore Roosevelt