"Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt."
4
"The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street."
4
"I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone."
4
"Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank."
4
"At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes."
4
"I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things."
3
"The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour."
3
"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."
4
"Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise."
4
"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."
3
"We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley."
4
"I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about."
3
"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time."
4
"It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace."
4
"Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager."
3
"For us, the death of Osama bin Laden is a time of profound reflection. With his death, we remember and mourn all the lives lost on September 11. We remember and mourn all the lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. We remember and mourn the death of our soldiers."
3
"Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body."
3
"Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do."
3
"Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising."
3
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
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