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" Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. "

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Experience

Death

Welcome

" Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. "

" A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Judges

" Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. "

" Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism. "

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Many

Vampires

" Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks. "

" I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? "

" When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. "

" Death is the beginning of something. "

" I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. "

" To have died once is enough. "

" I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. "

" I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. "

Christopher Hitchens

" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Moment

Peaceful

Death

" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "

" No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes. "

" Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. "

" Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them. "

" I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life. "

" To some extent I liken slavery to death. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Extent

Death

Slavery

" We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. "

" People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

See

People

Death

" We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. "

" Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves. "

" I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "

" Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. "

" The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. "

" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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" As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. "

" I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. "