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" If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. "

Devdutt Pattanaik

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" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "

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" If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. "

" Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters. "

Kurt Eichenwald

" You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. "

" Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. "

Tennessee Williams

" The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us. "

" I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. "

" We die only once, and for such a long time. "

" I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. "

" Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. "

Ernst Moritz Arndt

" 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

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

" He who doesn't fear death dies only once. "

Giovanni Falcone

" 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. "

" It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. "

" If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete. "

Viktor E. Frankl

" If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost. "

" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "

" Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. "

" When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. "

" Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. "

" An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" Death is just life's next big adventure. "

" Nothing in life is promised except death. "

" 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. "

" I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. "

Devdutt Pattanaik

" You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done. "

" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "