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" Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. "

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" People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism. "

Bernard Williams

" My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic. "

" Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. "

Stevie Ray Vaughan

" Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. "

" There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? "

" No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary. No matter what happens to you, no matter the depth of tragedy or pain you face, no matter how death stalks you and your loved ones, the Resurrection promises you a future of immeasurable good. "

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

" Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' "

" 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. "

" Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance. "

" You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes. "

" The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. "

" Man dies of cold, not of darkness. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. "

Alexandre Dumas

" I hope to die in the saddle seat. "

" Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. "

" Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.' "

" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

" A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. "

Marina Abramovic

" It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. "

" Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. "

Ernst Moritz Arndt

" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "

" One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. "

" We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. "

" You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. "

" A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. "