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" Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. "

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" Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. "

" 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

" I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. "

" The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

" Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. "

" Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. "

" Man always dies before he is fully born. "

" Life is but a moment, death also is but another. "

Robert H. Schuller

" Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "

Christopher Hitchens

" I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. "

" If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death. "

" 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. "

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

" You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty! "

" I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation. "

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

" Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. "

Albert Einstein

" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me. "

" In every parting there is an image of death. "

" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "

" In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth. "

Karen Salmansohn

" I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death. "

Guillermo del Toro

" You've gotta know what death is to know life! "

" 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. "

" Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on the back was definitely not encouraged, and pleasure or pride would be punishable by death. "