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" It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. "

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Albert Einstein

" Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. "

" The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. "

" When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. "

" No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. "

" I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul. "

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" Drake's my little brother; I love him to death, and he's family-oriented. "

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

Leonardo da Vinci

" Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. "

" And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! "

William Shakespeare

" I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. "

Stephen Hawking

" As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. "

" I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable. "

Eugene H. Peterson

" I am against the death penalty. "

" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "

Jean de la Bruyere

" When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. "

" The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. "

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" It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers. "

" There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" 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. "

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" Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. "

" You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "

Walter Cronkite

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" Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. "

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