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" There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. "

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" Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. "

" Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not. "

" 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. "

Ignatius of Antioch

" Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. "

Don Miguel Ruiz

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

" If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. "

Claude Vorilhon

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

Muqtada al Sadr

" So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good. "

" The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. "

" We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment. "

" We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. "

" 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. "

" I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death. "

" 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. "

" If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering. "

Chuck Palahniuk

" We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be. "

" All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat. "

" I always say, complacency is the kiss of death. "

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

" Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them. "

" Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. "

" Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. "

" Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. "

" Death is the beginning of something. "

" I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. "

" I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. "

Terry Pratchett