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" There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. "

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

" 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. "

" Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously. "

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

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

" My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.' "

" I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy. "

Stephen Hawking

" 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

" It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. "

" To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. "

" I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life. "

" Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. "

Alvar N. C. de Vaca

" Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. "

" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" 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. "

" Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.' "

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

" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "

" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. "

Ernest Hemingway

" One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death. "

" My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death. "

Sebastian Horsley

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

" Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. "

" I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. "

" The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. "

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

" Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. "

" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "