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" The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions. "

Anthony McCarten

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" Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. "

" If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. "

J. B. Priestley

" I agree with Scott Turow: A courtroom is inherently dramatic. You walk into court - it's like an ER, you know? Life and death is going on there. And it's moment-by-moment, and it's packed with energy. And even though you think you know what a witness is going to say, you can be wrong. Witnesses surprise you. "

" Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. "

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

" For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. "

" Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' "

Robert H. Schuller

" No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. "

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

" Grumbling is the death of love. "

Marlene Dietrich

" I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. "

" It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me. "

Francis Ford Coppola

" 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. "

Coretta Scott King

" Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads. "

Anthony McCarten

" Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

" There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? "

" Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? "

" No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply. "

" I'll sleep when I'm dead. "

" The death of the forest is the end of our life. "

" We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. "

Charles Bukowski

" In the long run we are all dead. "

John Maynard Keynes

" The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death. "

Mother Angelica

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

" I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. "

" The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. "

" Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. "

" I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. "

" In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born. "

Michael Ashcroft

" Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. "

" In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. "

Carol P. Christ