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" If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. "

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" Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. "

" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "

" Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. "

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" Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. "

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" There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? "

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

" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "

" 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. "

" Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. "

" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "

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" Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. "

" Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. "

" Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. "

Arthur Koestler

" I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with. "

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" Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" 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. "

" The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. "

" The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. "

" Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. "

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

" 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. "

" The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat. "

" I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death. "

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" An unused life is an early death. "

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