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" Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. "

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" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "

Marcus Aurelius

" I am against the death penalty. "

" You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive. "

" 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. "

" The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. "

" In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. "

" This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. "

" One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. "

" I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. "

" I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. "

William Shakespeare

" 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. "

" After your death you will be what you were before your birth. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "

" We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. "

" 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

" The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. "

" Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless. "

" Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities. "

" Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. "

" When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. "

" It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life. "

" Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. "

" If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas. "