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" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

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" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "

Christopher Hitchens

" A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. "

" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "

" Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. "

" All architects want to live beyond their deaths. "

" Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. "

" 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. "

" I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do. "

" You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. "

" Diabetes can be successfully prevented and managed by a healthy lifestyle. When not managed, it can lead to severe organ damage and death. "

" There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. "

" Death is the tyrant of the imagination. "

" The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world. "

" Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker. "

Kevyn Aucoin

Threats

Left

" In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom. "

" Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer. "

" Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. "

" I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. "

" The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer. "

Louis XIV

King

" Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen. "

" You'll have time to rest when you're dead. "

" Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. "

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

" We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be. "

" Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. "

" I believe in the freedom of choice in both life and death. "

" In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. "

" I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me. "

" In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. "

Alfred Russel Wallace

Eternity

Solitude

Space

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