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" There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. "

George Santayana

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" All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. "

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" People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. "

" I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. "

" When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism. "

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

" If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. "

" No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. "

" I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. "

" Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. "

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" Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. "

Christian Lous Lange

" Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light. "

" From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds. "

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" Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. "

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

" I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. "

" Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.' "

Christopher Hitchens

" It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. "

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" The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. "

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" To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. "

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" 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. "

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" The idea is to die young as late as possible. "

" 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. "

" The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history. "

" The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children. "

" 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. "

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" I'm quite British in the sense of not expressing my emotions much. I save it for my songs. If you ask about a death in the family, or a lover, I will not be emotional. I'd probably answer with a smile. Because that's what we British blokes do. "

" Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does. "

" Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. "

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

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