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" In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom. "

Lloyd Alexander

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" One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. "

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

" Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. "

" If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn. "

Lloyd Alexander

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" Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them. "

" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "

" Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. "

" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "

" The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. "

" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

" Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. "

" Nothing in life is promised except death. "

" Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. "

" Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. "

" I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality. "

" What is of the nature of spirit and soul must be gleaned from facts belonging to the spirit and soul; we shall then know that in the living thinking which is liberated from the will, a life-germ has been discerned which passes through the gate of death, goes through the spiritual world after death, and afterwards returns again to earthly life. "

" 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. "

" I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "

" Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. "

" The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). "

" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

" One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death. "

" To have died once is enough. "

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

Erich Fromm

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Death

" A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. "

" We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be. "

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

" Every human being is under construction from conception to death. "

" Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression. "