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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

I do not believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I did not, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Life and death are important. Do not suffer them in vain.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I do not think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It is an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It is this thing that is looming, and you can control it.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it is just sort of a tired feeling.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.