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" Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. "

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" Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. "

" I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. "

" 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

" 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. "

" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "

" Military deployments have never been something to enjoy, but the consequence of the actions, the shared nature of the sacrifices, and the nobility of the cause are invigorating. To be clear, I'm not talking about the killing and the death; rather, the sense of purpose that pervades every action, reaction, and outcome. "

" At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts. "

George Harrison

" Death is the tyrant of the imagination. "

" As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do? "

" Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. "

" The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty. "

" The very first thing you learn if you're a gentleman is that you never compare one woman to another. That's the way of all death. "

" Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. "

" Death is the cure for all diseases. "

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

" I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year. "

" A useless life is an early death. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "

Terry Pratchett

" Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death. "

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

" Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' "

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

" I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. "

" Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. "

Alexander Chase

" Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder. "

" Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. "

Alice Thomas Ellis

" Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. "

" Death is so important that God visited death upon his own son, thereby helping us learn right from wrong well enough that we may escape death forever and live eternally in God's grace. "