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" Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross? "

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" When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death. "

Thomas Hobbes

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War

Last

" 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. "

" Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. "

Dean Inge

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World

" I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals. "

" When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do. "

" It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. "

" When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. "

" 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

Silence

Strength

Moment

" Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. "

Katharine Hepburn

Interviews

Will

" Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. "

" You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe - and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology. "

" We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. "

" Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? "

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

" And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. "

Walt Whitman

Beautiful

Death

" We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God. "

" I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense. "

" The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. "

" We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. "

Albert Camus

Daily

Thinking

" What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. "

" The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Living

Memory

Life

" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

" You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. "

" When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Fear

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

" I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "

" Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. "