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~ For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death. ~

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

~ Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat. ~

Leonardo da Vinci

~ The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. ~

Anthony Burgess

~ Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings through many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted. ~

Isaiah Berlin

~ A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. ~

Albert Einstein

~ I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. ~

Giacomo Casanova

~ Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. ~

John Keats

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

Khalil Gibran

~ It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. ~

Brian Perkins

~ The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. ~

Salvatore Quasimodo

~ Don\'t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. ~

Colin Powell

~ Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. ~

William Shakespeare

~ The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death. ~

Daniel Petrie

~ The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me. ~

Bhagavad Gita

~ A very gallant gentleman.....he walked willingly to his death in a blizzard to try to save his comrades beset by hardships. ~

Atkinson E.L. and Garrard Apsley Cherry

~ No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. ~

Walter Bagehot

~ A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire. ~

Hermann Hesse

~ Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. ~

Rossiter W. Raymond

~ Death by starvation is slow. ~

Mary Austin

~ Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death! ~

Sun Tzu

~ Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. ~

Titus Maccius Plautus

~ Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. ~

Ovid

~ Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute. ~

Theodore Fontane

~ Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute. ~

Theodore Fontane

~ A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ~

Susan Sontag

~ Death is that "Tomorrow" for which all our lives are spent waiting! Man is constantly building the "Image." It is an Edifice for the entombment of bones! Best to "Realize" the temporal nature of things and simply "Do and Die! ~

Irvin Kauffman

~ The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. ~

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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