“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”– T. S. Eliot Related Quotes “People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say – and they want you to hear it.”– Anna Deavere Smith “Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.”– E. M. Forster “If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a ‘peace conference,’ you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.”– Joseph Stalin