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" Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had. "

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" I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death. "

Carlos Fuentes

Death

Create

" Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. "

" The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns. "

" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "

Hannah Arendt

Escape

Try

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

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

" I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year. "

" I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life. "

" There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. "

" One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. "

" 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? "

" I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Soul

Death

Body

" None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. "

" As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. "

" Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. "

" With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay? "

" Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory. "

" 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. "

Robert Bolt

Death

Day

" We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold. "

" Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. "

" Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. "

" Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. "

" Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. "

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. "

" Death is very often referred to as a good career move. "