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" I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. "

Mercedes McCambridge

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

" Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed. "

Mercedes McCambridge

" It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. "

" Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies. "

" I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that. "

" I'm not afraid to die. "

" I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" Death is the beginning of something. "

" The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death. "

" But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. "

" All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat. "

" There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. "

George Santayana

" Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. "

" Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. "

" The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary. "

" Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. "

Ernest Hemingway

" When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day. "

" 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. "

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. "

Mercedes McCambridge

" In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sherrilyn Kenyon

" As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us. "

" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. "

Bryant H. McGill

" I'm glad I am a woman who once danced naked in the Mediterranean Sea at midnight. "

Mercedes McCambridge

" 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. "

" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "