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" I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. "

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. "

" It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? "

" 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 not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. "

" I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. "

" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "

Stephen Hawking

" Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. "

" We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. "

" 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

" Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. "

" God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. "

" As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do? "

" Marriage is the death of hope. "

" There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself. "

" In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. "

" Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes. "

" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. "

" But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. "

" 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. "

Caitlin Doughty

" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "

Emily Dickinson

" 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. "

" Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible. "

" 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. "

" It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. "

" Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. "

" I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. "