"If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'."

Death, Life, Sacrifice, Idea

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"If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'."

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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."

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"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?"

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"The dreadful dead of dark midnight."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well death is just one more night."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

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"Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison."

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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."

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"If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'."

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