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" 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

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" Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. "

" A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. "

" Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. "

" One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. "

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

" It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible. "

" Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares. "

" There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. "

" Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. "

Miguel de Unamuno

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

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

" There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. "

Thomas A. Edison

" I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. "

Giuseppe Garibaldi

" Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. "

George Bernard Shaw

" For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. "

Jose Ortega y Gasset

" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

" The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? "

Blase J. Cupich

" Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. "

" Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. "

" Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. "

" It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. "

" The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary. "

" To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. "

" 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. "

" Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. "

" Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. "

J. R. R. Tolkien

" I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. "