"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

Death, Life, Purpose

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"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."

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"He has gone to the demnition bow-wows."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death."

Buddha, Indian Leader

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"So," he asked. "How's death?""Hard," she said. "It just keeps going."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Birth was the death of him."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?"

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

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"Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations..."

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"We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it."

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"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."

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"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

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"When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim."

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"The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual."

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"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

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