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“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

“The moments before he died, Christ was seized by doubt. Surely that must have been his greatest hardship? God’s silence”. –Ingmar Bergman

“I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me”. –Edith Cavell

“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt for death”. –Hannibal

“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives”. –Abu Bakr

“Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment”. –Dag Hammarskjöld

“I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death”. –Harry Houdini

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today”. –James Dean

“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken”. –Hans Christian Andersen

“So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal”. –Giuseppe Mazzini

“I’ll probably die by the time I reach 25, but I’ll have lived the way I wanted to”. –Sid Vicious

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it”. –Oscar Wilde

“Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets”. –Aneurin Bevan

“What is our life but a series of preludes to that unknown song of which death sounds the first solemn note?” –Franz Liszt

“Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition”. –John Pearson

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”. –Emiliano Zapata

“The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world”. –Edgar Allan Poe