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" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "

William Shakespeare

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" The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success. "

" I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. "

" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "

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" Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. "

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" For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me. "

" Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is. "

" As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. "

" From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. "

" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" 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

" 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. "

" Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. "

" 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

" Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. "

William Shakespeare

" Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. "

" Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. "

" When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday. "

" When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. "

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" Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible. "

Georges Simenon

" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. "

Alexander De Croo

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. "

" We know what we are, but know not what we may be. "

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