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I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die. -- Whitney Houston
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest. -- George Michael
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. -- Bernard Berenson
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die. -- Jonathan Franzen
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! -- William Shakespeare
Let us die as soon as possible, and by whatever process God shall appoint. And when we are dead to the world, and nature, and self, we shall begin to live to God. -- Adoniram Judson
How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth. -- Ravi Zacharias
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering. -- Jack Kevorkian
Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are struggling and they are in their teens. Some people are in their 50s and they're struggling. Some people go through life and die not being able to accept themselves. Tragic. But it's very individual. And it's about self-esteem. -- Ricky Martin
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. -- Deepak Chopra
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too. -- Roseanne Barr
The self persists like a dying star, In sleep, afraid. -- Will Rogers
When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire. -- Darin Strauss
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. -- Agatha Christie
Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more? -- Wesley J. Smith
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. -- Peter Kreeft
As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul. -- Stephane Mallarme

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