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Jessamyn West on death
Author: Jessamyn West“Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.” -Jessamyn West
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Jose Ortega y Gasset on death
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset“An ‘unemployed’ existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Horace Mann on death
Author: Horace Mann“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.” -Horace Mann
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Samuel Beckett on death
Author: Samuel Beckett“Birth was the death of him.” -Samuel Beckett
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Theodor Adorno on death
Author: Theodor Adorno“Normality is death.” -Theodor Adorno
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Roger Waters on death
Author: Roger Waters“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body’s final fall, nor the barrels of death’s rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.” -Roger Waters
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Doug Coupland on death
Author: Doug Coupland“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.” -Doug Coupland
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge on death
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge“A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Charlotte Bronte on death
Author: Charlotte Bronte“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.” -Charlotte Bronte
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George MacDonald on death
Author: George MacDonald“How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.” -George MacDonald
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Gwyneth Paltrow on death
Author: Gwyneth Paltrow“My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn’t seem to add up to very much.” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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Brendan Behan on death
Author: Brendan Behan“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” -Brendan Behan
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Ovid on death
Author: Ovid“Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.” -Ovid
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W. H. Auden on death
Author: W. H. Auden“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.” -W. H. Auden
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Desmond Tutu on death
Author: Desmond Tutu“I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.” -Desmond Tutu
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Wilson Mizner on death
Author: Wilson Mizner“Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.” -Wilson Mizner
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George Whitefield on death
Author: George Whitefield“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.” -George Whitefield
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Paul McCartney on death
Author: Paul McCartney“The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” -Paul McCartney
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Miguel Angel Ruiz on death
Author: Miguel Angel Ruiz“Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” -Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Eric Hoffer on death
Author: Eric Hoffer“It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.” -Eric Hoffer
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Dean Koontz on death
Author: Dean Koontz“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.” -Dean Koontz
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Desiderius Erasmus on death
Author: Desiderius Erasmus“The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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Oliver Wendell Holmes on death
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Charles Caleb Colton on death
Author: Charles Caleb Colton“Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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Jonathan Swift on death
Author: Jonathan Swift“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.” -Jonathan Swift