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" The destination is a happy life, an accomplished life that doesn't end with death but with eternal life. "

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Blase J. Cupich

" 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. "

" Looking good and feeling like death is a difficult combination for people to understand. "

" When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. "

" Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us. "

" It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. "

Charles de Gaulle

" 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. "

" It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. "

" Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service. "

" We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death. "

" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "

" Death is the beginning of something. "

" Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. "

" Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. "

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

" It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

" The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? "

Richard LaGravenese

" Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. "

" 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

" Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. "

" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "

" Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. "

Daniel Berrigan

" When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday. "

" Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. "

" A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. "

" So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. "

" Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

" Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. "