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" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. "

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" What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. "

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

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" I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. "

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" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "

" The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears. "

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

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" People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

" There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

" A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. "

" Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. "

" They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. "

" But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. "

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

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

" In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same. "

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" I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. "

" Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. "

" I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. "

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" And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! "

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" There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord. "

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