“Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”– Rabindranath Tagore Related Quotes “As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.”– Josh McDowell “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”– Robert M. Hutchins “Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.”– Lawrence Ferlinghetti