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" Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. "

Daniel Berrigan

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" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "

" Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. "

Ramana Maharshi

" Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day. "

" When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. "

" I'm not afraid to die. "

" Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. "

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

" The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. "

" For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. "

" I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "

" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. "

Fulton J. Sheen

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

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

" Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. "

" Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. "

" Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law. "

" I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. "

" Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. "

" Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. "

" I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face. "

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

" Life and death have been lacking in my life. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" I am determined to offer an apology with my death. "

" Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. "

" There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. "

Solomon Northup

" If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that's death. That's instant death. "

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful Woman

" You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest. "