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" Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism. "

Maggie Stiefvater

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" I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of creating life and the loss, within one year. "

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

" The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them? "

" The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence. "

Gerard De Nerval

" When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. "

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

" Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? "

" If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. "

Martin Heidegger

" There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. "

" It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. "

" Fling but a stone, the giant dies. "

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

" To have died once is enough. "

" The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. "

" The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. "

" Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. "

" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed. "

" The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. "

" It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. "

" 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. "

Florence Nightingale

" Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. "

" Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle. "

Maggie Stiefvater

" Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. "

Bryant H. McGill

" The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat. "

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

" Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death. "

" Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. "

" Life and death have been lacking in my life. "

Jorge Luis Borges