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

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" In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. "

Jonathan Larson

" Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "

" I think it's really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death. "

" We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley. "

" 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. "

" The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life. "

" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "

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

" Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. "

J. R. R. Tolkien

" I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men. "

Julianna Baggott

" The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. "

Albert Einstein

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

" The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. "

Bertrand Russell

" Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. "

Don Miguel Ruiz

" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

" One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. "

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

" To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. "

" Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. "

" There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. "

Charlotte Bronte

" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "

Stephen Hawking

" The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death! "

Edward Everett Hale

" If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. "

" If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants. "

" I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. "

" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. "