"Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important." ― Bill Shankly Topic(s): Death More From Bill Shankly "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that." More In Death "Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."― Vladimir Nabokov "Man always dies before he is fully born."― Erich Fromm "The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death."― Stanislav Grof