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" There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. "

Charles de Montesquieu

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" The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death. "

Ramana Maharshi

" I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me? "

" Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them. "

Daniel H. Wilson

" Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? "

" Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. "

Daniel Barenboim

" People living deeply have no fear of death. "

" L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death. "

" Death is not the end; it is but one more step in a great forward march made possible by the redemption wrought by the Savior. This is the spirit of true science - constant and eternal seeking. "

" Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. "

Emily Dickinson

" When you have closed the Bible, you have neither closed God's mind nor shut God's mouth. God continues to speak, live and exist. I think we should consult the living God for the living word for living people dealing with death, destruction and despair in the midst of our hurt humanity. I believe love will conquer all. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "

Tahar Ben Jelloun

" Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. "

George Whitefield

" We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. "

" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "

Walter Cronkite

" In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. "

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

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

" My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. "

" Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead. "

Friedrich Durrenmatt

" Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. "

" Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. "

" We are the spirit children of a Heavenly Father. He loved us and He taught us before we were born into this world. He told us that He wished to give us all that He had. To qualify for that gift we had to receive mortal bodies and be tested. Because of those mortal bodies, we would face pain, sickness, and death. "

Henry B. Eyring

" I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. "

" 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. "

" Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. "

Ruth Ann Minner

" When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and death in front of you, and you witness seeing someone deteriorating in front of you - it's an overwhelming experience. If you don't learn from that, I don't know what else you're gonna learn. "

Mickalene Thomas

" Normality is death. "

" Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. "

Elizabeth Warren

" Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross