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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. "

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" If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. "

Indira Gandhi

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" Black-marketeers are really knowing, intelligent, and ordinarily responsible people, and when they indulge in black-marketing, I think they ought to be very severely punished because they undermine the entire system of control and regulation of foodstuffs and essential commodities, and cause wholesale starvation and want and even death. "

" I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death. "

" My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral. "

" Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Death

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" Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. "

" For me, habit is just a synonym for death. "

" There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus. "

" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

" We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment. "

" I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy. "

" Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends. "

" What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. "

" The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. "

" 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. "

" Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. "

" Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. "

" Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law. "

" Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. "

" 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. "

" Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. "

" People living deeply have no fear of death. "

" Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. "

" I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. "

" 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. "

" Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. "

" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Union

Passage

Death

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

" Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain. "

" Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. "