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" Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. "

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Charlotte Bronte

" I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. "

" Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock. "

" 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. "

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

" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

George MacDonald

" Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. "

" My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. "

" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. "

" Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. "

" For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "

Mattie Stepanek

" There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. "

" In every parting there is an image of death. "

" Give the peasants neither life nor death. "

Ieyasu Tokugawa

" If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides. "

" There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. "

Daniel Berrigan

" Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. "

" Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" I'm gonna live till I die. "

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

Stephen Leacock

" Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world. "

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

Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful Woman

" I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. "

" It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. "

" The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat. "

" Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. "

Theodor W. Adorno

" Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. "

Dag Hammarskjold