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" I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "

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" Divorce is probably as painful as death. "

William Shatner

" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "

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

Juliette Binoche

" 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. "

" When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

" To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. "

" Golf is a good walk spoiled. "

" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "

" On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. "

" When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. "

John Greenleaf Whittier

" I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. "

" Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. "

" It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. "

" The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. "

" Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "

" The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. "

" I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. "

" 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

" Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. "

" Give me liberty or give me death. "

" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "

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" Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. "

" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "

Marcus Aurelius

" O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. "

" Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. "