"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on death
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"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

Donne, John on death
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"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

Burchill, Julie on bereavement
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"It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."

Seneca on death
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"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

Almes, Guy on death
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Adams, John on democracy
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"If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."

Lewis, C. S. on bereavement
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"God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain."

Lewis, C. S. on pleasure
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

Lewis, C. S. on grief
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."

Epictetus on alcohol and alcoholism
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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

Augustine, St. on belief
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"The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief."

Carlyle, Thomas on belief
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"Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is."

Cousins, Norman on belief   

"Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree."

Connolly, Cyril on epitaphs
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on epitaphs
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"The fundamental impulse of the movement is neither masturbatory nor concretely lesbian -- although it of course offers warm house to both these possibilities; it is an impulse to maidenhood -- to that condition in which a woman might pretend to a false fear or loathing of the penis in order to escape from any responsibility for the pleasure and well-being of the man who possesses it."

Decter, Midge on feminism
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"I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets."

Reagan, Ronald on games   

"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."

Freud, Sigmund on belief
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place."

Blake, William on sex   

"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."

Baudrillard, Jean on life
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