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" 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. "

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" To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill. "

" You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try. "

" What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart. "

Charles Spurgeon

" Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. "

" You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean. "

David Attenborough

" I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? "

" A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death. "

Robert Benchley

" The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. "

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

" You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. "

Michael Eric Dyson

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

Muqtada al Sadr

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

" I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable. "

Eugene H. Peterson

" 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

" Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. "

" The great event of history is in the great miracle of Life: when, to a paralyzed world, Jesus Christ said, 'Take up your bed and walk,' and at his voice, that world obeyed. The victory of life over death! "

Edward Everett Hale

" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "

" It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. "

" If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. "

J. B. Priestley

" I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. "

" The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? "

Richard LaGravenese

" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "

" Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it's a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it. "

" Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. "

" On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down . "

" Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. "

" To some extent I liken slavery to death. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. "

" Just like the poles of a magnet, some people are drawn to death and others are repulsed by it, but we all have to deal with it. "

" Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. "

Alexander De Croo