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I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

—From a 1975 interview with Mick Jagger, who still performs the song at age sixty-seven

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War would end if the dead could return.

—Stanley Baldwin

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If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.

—Rudyard Kipling

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If you're condemned to death they have to give you one last meal of your choice. What is that all about? A group of people plans to kill you, so they want you to eat something you like? Do they think the food part will take your mind off the dying part? Or do they prefer to kill you when you're just coming off a peak experience and full of positive energy?

—George Carlin

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I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now…if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

—H. L. Mencken

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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

—Sydney Smith

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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

—Woody Allen

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

—Mark Twain

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Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming.

—Virgil

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We forget that we ourselves are a part of history, that we are the product of growth and are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change. We are ourselves history and share the responsibility for world history and our position in it. But we gravely lack awareness of this responsibility.

—Herman Hesse

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Live your life as if each moment is your last. This isn't about going crazy. It's about appreciation.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Pull

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Betty Williams, a 1977 Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Northern Ireland, once witnessed the bombing death of Irish children, and a little girl died in Williams's arms. The girl's legs had been severed in the explosion and thrown across the street from where the woman held the bleeding child. Williams went home in shock and despair. Later, the full impact of what she'd seen jolted her awake. She stepped outside, screaming out in the middle of the night. She knocked on doors that might easily have opened with weapons pointed at her face and cried, "What kind of people have we become that we would allow children to be killed on our streets?" Within four hours the city was awake and there were sixteen thousand names on petitions for peace.

—Linda Hogan

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Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

—Jonathan Tropper in This is Where I Leave You

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