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

George MacDonald

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" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "

" Ultimately, you walk life side-by-side with death, and the Day of the Dead, curiously enough, is about life. It's an impulse that's intrinsic to the Mexican character. "

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" I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul. "

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" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "

" Life and death have been lacking in my life. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me. "

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. "

William Butler Yeats

" 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. "

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

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" I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. "

" I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. "

Giuseppe Garibaldi

" The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. "

" Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. "

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" 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

" Early this morning, I signed my death warrant. "

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" 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. "

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" The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. "

" For me, habit is just a synonym for death. "

Juliette Binoche

" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

" 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. "

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life. "

Russell M. Nelson

" The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. "

" We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be. "

" 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. "

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" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "