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Death

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. – Yitzhak Rabin

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. – Imran Khan

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. – Henry Miller

Divorce is probably as painful as death. – William Shatner

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. – Evelyn Beatrice Hall

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. – Henry Van Dyke

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual – when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions – it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. – Jerry Garcia

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia. – Pope Benedict XVI

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. – Jean Paul

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. – David Herbert Lawrence

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. – Joseph Addison

In every death, a busy world comes to an end. – Mason Cooley

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. – Sophocles

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. – Thomas Aquinas

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

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. – David Herbert Lawrence

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. – Leonardo DaVinci