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" Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us. "

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" Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. "

" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "

" Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "

" Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. "

" I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode. "

" Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. "

" Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. "

" As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through faith. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to God. It's the object of our faith - Christ's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us. "

" Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. "

" I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. "

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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" I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. "

" We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. "

" Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. "

" As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. "

" When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. "

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness. "

" Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. "

Norman Cousins

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" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "

" All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. "

" Nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

Walt Whitman

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Nothing

" Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. "

" I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear. "

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You

" 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. "

" Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. "

" Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. "

Stevie Nicks

Fight

Good

" If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. "

" When I first met Alan Parker, who directed 'Angel Heart,' he'd heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, 'I'm very scared of you. I've heard you're a very bad boy.' "

Mickey Rourke

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You

" So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. "