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" For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. "

George Santayana

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" Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. "

" 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. "

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" If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. "

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" Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. "

Miguel de Unamuno

" There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. "

Solomon Northup

" The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. "

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" And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! "

William Shakespeare

" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. "

" 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. "

" The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. "

George Santayana

" The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. "

" The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. "

George Santayana

" 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

" Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. "

George Santayana

" In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom. "

Lloyd Alexander

" My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law. "

" Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. "

Mary Baker Eddy

" I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

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

" We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold. "

" Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. "

George Bernard Shaw

" After your death you will be what you were before your birth. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. "

" Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. "

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" Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. "