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- Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
- It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.
- Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
- Death likes it when you play hard to get.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
- We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.
- Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
- Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.
- Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
- Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), "Winter of Artifice"
- A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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