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" Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. "

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" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

George MacDonald

" If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. "

" Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death. "

" Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it. "

Pope John Paul II

" Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. "

" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "

" I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. "

Muqtada al Sadr

" Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. "

" Grace is what matters in anything - especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. That's a quality that I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching out for the gun too quickly. It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It sort of keeps you alive. "

" 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. "

Lloyd Alexander

" God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" 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

" You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. "

" Everything that gets born dies. "

Morrie Schwartz

" Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. "

" Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. "

" Divorce is probably as painful as death. "

William Shatner

" Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. "

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

" The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. "

" Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war is genocidal - Israel connives in Armenian genocide denial. "

Howard Jacobson

" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "

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

" 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. "

" My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral. "

Annie Wersching

" Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life. "

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