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" Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. "

Vladimir Nabokov

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" The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? "

" The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. "

Lois McMaster Bujold

" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. "

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" Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old. "

Terry Pratchett

" 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. "

" The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty. "

" I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love. "

" I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. "

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

" Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion. "

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" Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. "

" They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Death is a distant rumor to the young. "

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" People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism. "

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" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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" People living deeply have no fear of death. "