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

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" Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. "

" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "

" Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand. "

" When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. "

Marlene Dietrich

" Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. "

" 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. "

" Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "

" Death is the beginning of something. "

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death. "

James Forman, Jr.

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

" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. "

" Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. "

" Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. "

" Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. "

Daniel Barenboim

" As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. "

" Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. "

" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "

" Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death. "

" The death of the forest is the end of our life. "

" I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. "

" All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat. "

" When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. "

" All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. "

" Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts. "