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Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. -- George Eliot
The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing. -- Otsuichi
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. -- Huey Newton
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. -- Ray Kurzweil
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus. -- John Ortberg
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. -- Stanislav Grof
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation. -- Hans Jonas
These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths. -- Mercedes Lackey
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. -- Paul Kurtz
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. -- Michael Sheen
Is death that which gives meaning to life? -- Donald Barthelme
Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death -- T. S. Eliot
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. -- Dean Koontz
I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy. -- Kirsten Dunst
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang -- Lisa See
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy. -- Leo Tolstoy
Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death. -- Charles Spurgeon
Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory? -- Ian Mcewan
Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life. -- B.G. Bowers
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. -- Paulo Coelho
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. -- Elie Wiesel
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. -- Italo Calvino
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life. -- Donald Barthelme
Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things. -- Richard Leider
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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right. -- Marya Mannes
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well. -- Edgar Lee Masters
In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common. -- Robert Paul Weston
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. -- Giorgio Agamben
There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life. -- John H. Groberg
Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it. -- Donna Tartt
Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. -- Alice Borchardt
What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition. -- Glen Duncan
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. -- Toni Morrison
Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death. -- Sarah Strohmeyer
If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning "? a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross. -- Neil Gaiman
What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning. -- Madeleine Bunting
The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end. -- Octavio Paz
Compatible comes from the Latin "compati", meaning "to suffer with". If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do you part, then you are not compatible. -- Jason Evert
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In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'. -- Scott Fahlman

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