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" Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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Human Being

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" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "

" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "

" I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. "

" In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. "

" If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. "

" The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen. "

" I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. "

" Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. "

" Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. "

" The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. "

" Marriage is the death of hope. "

" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "

" Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. "

" Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. "

" Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. "

" If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. "

Morgan Freeman

Challenge

Live

" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "

" Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table. "

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Francis Thompson

Look

Heaven

" You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. "

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" I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love. "

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