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" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "
Lord Byron
Makes
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Men
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" The death industry markets caskets and embalming under the rubric of helping bodies look 'natural,' but our current death customs are as natural as training majestic creatures like bears and elephants to dance in cute little outfits, or erecting replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Venetian canals in the middle of the harsh American desert. "
Caitlin Doughty
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" If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination. "
Devdutt Pattanaik
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" As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be. "
Henri Nouwen
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Death
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" Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. "
Lord Byron
Unhappy
Sometimes
Love
" But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. "
Lord Byron
Falling
Words
Small
" It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers. "
Harper Lee
Hands
Place
Quick
" Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. "
Lord Byron
Snake
Anything
Like
" I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. "
Anne Frank
Foundation
Peace
Death
" Diabetes can be successfully prevented and managed by a healthy lifestyle. When not managed, it can lead to severe organ damage and death. "
Tedros Adhanom
Healthy
Lifestyle
Death
" I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death. "
Dave Grohl
Music
Quit
Ready
" I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case. "
Martha Beck
Said
Death
Always
" Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. "
Michelangelo
Death
Man
Love
" I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. "
Lord Byron
Indifference
Consistency
Politics
" Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. "
Lord Byron
Run
Sometimes
Off
" Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. "
Reid Hoffman
Judges
Potential
Death
" In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born. "
Michael Ashcroft
Death
Born
War
" It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. "
Epictetus
Dreaded
Fear
Pain
" Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. "
Lord Byron
Great
Her
Nothing
" The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death. "
Mother Angelica
Deep
Death
Soul
" Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. "
Carter Burwell
Help
Society
Always
" Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. "
Elizabeth I
War
States
Dangers
" At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. "
John Ortberg
Story
Death
Christian
" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "
Lee Iacocca
Death
Respect
God
" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "
Khalil Gibran
Life
Death
Sea
" You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit. "
Criss Angel
You
Know
Kiss
" Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. "
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
God
Influence
Evil
" One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. "
Jean-Paul Sartre
Dies
Still
Become
" People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist. "
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
See
People
Death
" Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism. "
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Many
Us
Vampires