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" We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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" I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. "

Pope John XXIII

" Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short. "

" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "

" If you look at the movie 'Belly,' I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I'm not in the game for the wrong reasons. I'm not in the game for the glory. I'm in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I'm a highly intelligent individual. "

" 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. "

" Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast. "

" Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory. "

" Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "

" I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. "

Stephen Leacock

" Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. "

" I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. "

" When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. "

" When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day. "

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

Marcus Aurelius

" I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death. "

" I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. "

" Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. "

Edgar Allan Poe

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" Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. "

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

" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "

George MacDonald

" 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. "

" I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. "

" If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. "

" There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism. "

" Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies. "

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