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I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse. -- Richard Lamm
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. -- Alexander Chase
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. -- John Hines
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. -- John Hines
Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. -- Stokely Carmichael
In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view. -- Martin McGuinness
American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. -- George Lucas
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. -- G. Gordon Liddy
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life. -- Jose Saramago
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer. -- Clare Balding
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns. -- Kent Haruf
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week. -- Basil Hume
The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge. -- Simon Greenleaf
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me. -- Brad Pitt
I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century. -- Andrew Greeley
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do. -- Robin Gibb
It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits. -- Wendell Berry
Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion. -- Sam Harris
The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that. -- Christopher Moore
Death is the last fact of which we can be certain. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life -- D. Aswini
The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference. -- William Farr
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything. -- Milan Kundera
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact. -- Ed Koch
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. -- Alexander Smith
Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning. -- Gabrielle
Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it. -- E.A.A. Wilson
We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We think of death and loss as tragic twins, but in fact it is loss that hurts us. -- Perry Brass
All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death. -- Swami Vivekananda
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact. -- Damien Hirst
A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death -- Gore Vidal
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. -- George Lucas
I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality. -- Janet Evanovich
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction. -- Paul A. Baran
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life. -- Shunryu Suzuki
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death. -- Swami Vivekananda
I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable. -- A.J. Ayer
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself. -- Henry David Thoreau
Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked. -- Nuruddin Farah

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