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Death and dying

«I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.»
«It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.»
«I am not going to fight against death but for life.»
«I am about to take my last voyage. A great leap in the dark.»
Author: Thomas Hobbes (Philosopher) | About: Death and dying | Keywords: leap, voyage
«I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.»
Author: Andy Warhol (Artist) | About: Death and dying | Keywords: gotten, whole thing, wished
«It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.»
Author: Elizabeth Taylor (Actress) | About: Death and dying, Ignorance | Keywords: AIDS
«It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (languor), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.»
«I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Death and dying, War | Keywords: cause, kill, prepared
«It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.»
«It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.»