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" If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. "

Claude Vorilhon

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" Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not. "

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. "

" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. "

" The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. "

" While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" I'm gonna live till I die. "

" 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. "

" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "

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" Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch's 'New York Post.' Trump's oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table. "

" 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. "

" You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. "

" The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. "

Montgomery Clift

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

Vladimir Nabokov

" Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.' "

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" The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? "

Blase J. Cupich

" Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' "

" In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium. "

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Claude Vorilhon

" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "

Mattie Stepanek

" Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about having not yet been born - yet this is something we would have to regard as the other aspect of the human soul. We are just as unborn as we are immortal. "

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David Attenborough

" The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero