"Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death."

Death, Life, God, People

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"Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death."

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"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Fyodor Pavlovitch was drunk when he heard of his wife's death, and the story is that he ran out into the street and began shouting with joy, raising his hands to Heaven: "Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace," but others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is quite possible that both versions were true, that he rejoiced at his release, and at the same time wept for her who released him."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Our life is made by the death of others."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"To be invisible you shouldn't exist, first of all you should make everything that you are dead... second you are invisible. If you are dead it's not possible the thought to exist!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."

Stanislav Grof, Czechoslovakian Psychologist

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"I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

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"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Birth was the death of him."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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