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" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "

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" We die only once, and for such a long time. "

" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

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" True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. "

" It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. "

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" You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. "

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" Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. "

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" Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. "

" As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking. "

" Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. "

" There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. "

" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "

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" I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? "

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

" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "

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

" Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. "

" Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. "

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" There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. "

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" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

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" The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. "

Mary Catherine Bateson

" There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon. "

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" Inactivity is death. "

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