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" Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. "

Alexander Chase

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" For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. "

George Santayana

" The fear of death comes from limited awareness. "

" L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death. "

" I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. "

" 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. "

" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

" You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. "

" Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. "

" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "

" The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death. "

" Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. "

Marcus Aurelius

" You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe - and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology. "

Yuval Noah Harari

" A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. "

" Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. "

Tennessee Williams

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

Marcus Aurelius

" One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. "

" 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. "

" Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. "

Theodor W. Adorno

" The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. "

" I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything. "

" You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. "

" There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady. "

" Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Our life is made by the death of others. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" In the long run we are all dead. "

John Maynard Keynes

" As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. "

" Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" 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. "

Patricia Heaton