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" If we must die, we die defending our rights. "

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" As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death. "

" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

" 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. "

Jonathan Larson

" And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

" The valiant never taste of death but once. "

William Shakespeare

" If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. "

J. B. Priestley

" Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. "

" The fear of death comes from limited awareness. "

" Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "

" Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. "

Ernest Hemingway

" If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. "

" The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage. "

" It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. "

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" I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life. "

" Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death. "

" An unused life is an early death. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" 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 shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. "

" Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. "

" My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. "

" The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. "

" Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. "

" Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. "

Daniel Berrigan

" It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. "

" Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. "

" Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' "

" The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. "

Lois McMaster Bujold

" I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. "

" There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady. "