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" Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. "

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" I'm gonna live till I die. "

" I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. "

" If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. "

" Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. "

William Shakespeare

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. "

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. "

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

" Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. "

" A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. "

" Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. "

" 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 ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "

Terry Pratchett

" When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. "

" Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. "

Patricia Heaton

" Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' "

" A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. "

Gustave Flaubert

" I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. "

" Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. "

" I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. "

" I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

" Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. "

" 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. "

" We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. "

Henry B. Eyring

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

Devdutt Pattanaik

" To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. "

" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "

Anthony McCarten

" People living deeply have no fear of death. "