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An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely. -- Paulo Coelho
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. -- Mason Cooley
Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe. -- Brian Swimme
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it. -- Ian Fleming
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. -- Richard Leakey
The fear of death comes from limited awareness. -- Deepak Chopra
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. -- Stokely Carmichael
I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death. -- Jessica Raine
I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be. -- Ridley Pearson
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing. -- Alan Ball
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act. -- Lynsey Addario
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. -- Norman Cousins
I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States. -- Amanda Hearst
I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death. -- Anne Fortier
When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. -- Chris Crutcher
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. -- Xun Zi
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count! -- Alan Ball
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view! -- Martin Bormann
When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. -- Maurice Sendak
I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation. -- Melody Beattie
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death. -- Samantha Shannon
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
Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death. -- Jacqueline Carey
Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death. -- Henry Reed
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights. -- Hafez Ibrahim
Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed. -- Dalai Lama
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended. -- Charles Lindbergh
Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece. -- June Singer

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