death

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘death’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.” -Kurt Cobain

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  • “What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.” -Mario Puzo

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  • “I start thinking about life after death. I’ve got to quit thinking about it because it’s very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don’t feel like you want to be alive, so I don’t like to get all quiet.” -David Ortiz

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  • “When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.” -Allen Klein

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  • “Here’s a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can’t anticipate how you’ll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.” -Mary Schmich

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  • “The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad’s confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.” -Louis Farrakhan

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  • “If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.” -David Mitchell

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  • “Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.” -Carter Burwell

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  • “My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.” -Jean Racine

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  • “It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.” -Henry Fielding

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  • “I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.” -Emilio Estevez

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  • “When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, ‘This ain’t going to last,’ so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.” -Adam Ant

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  • “Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.” -Suzanne Fields

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  • “If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.” -Antonin Scalia

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  • “Death is a very important part of life.” -GG Allin

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  • “Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.” -Joseph Ratzinger

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  • “I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve’s character’s emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan’s death, which I thought was exploitative.” -Margot Kidder

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  • “Planning to play: that’s what saving for retirement is today – and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.” -John Thorn

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  • “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

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  • “The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.” -Bianca Jagger

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  • “I’m not on the run from anything and I’m not at all clear about what I’m running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I’m totally exhausted.” -Fiona Shaw

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  • “So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When…

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  • “Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.” -G. Gordon Liddy

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  • “You realize that however much you don’t think about death – or think that’s for other people – you’re just an organism living from day to day. I’m just grateful I’m here.” -Robin Gibb

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  • “You know, I’ve never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it’s a rumor.” -David Carradine

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  • “Patrick Henry did not say, ‘Give me absolutely safety or give me death.’ America is supposed to be about freedom.” -John Stossel

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  • “Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death – everybody’s pretending that death doesn’t happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.” -Emily Mortimer

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  • “On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.” -Hu Shih

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  • “I just don’t get death at all. Yes, it’s there. But I don’t get it.” -Manolo Blahnik

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  • “I can’t let my mother’s death have been in vain. Democracy is the best revenge, and we will have it.” -Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

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  • “You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.” -Francoise Sagan

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  • “Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.” -Angela Carter

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  • “He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.” -Ryszard Kapuscinski

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  • “To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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  • “It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film ‘Death Sentence,’ and I got back with him again in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis.’” -Garrett Hedlund

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  • “I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, ‘This is la-la land.’ God doesn’t say, ‘Welcome to Earth. Everything’s perfect. There’s no crime. There’s no murder. There’s no death.’ The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.” -Luke Scott

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  • “I don’t want to hear about my death.” -Oriana Fallaci

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  • “The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.” -Cynthia McKinney

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  • “Death doesn’t frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.” -Jeanne Calment

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  • “I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can’t believe I won’t exist. It’s the ego isn’t it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don’t know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but…

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  • “I’ve accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.” -Alexei Sayle

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  • “The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.” -Kevin Smith

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  • “Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.” -Yasser Arafat

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  • “If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.” -Paul Lynde

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  • “I think I might actually die of showing off. It’ll be on my headstone – ‘Cause of Death: Showing Off.’” -Jenny Eclair

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  • “When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.” -Eamon de Valera

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  • “I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.” -Karlie Kloss

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  • “I don’t think of death in a romantic way anymore.” -Robert Smith

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  • “To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.” -John James Audubon

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  • “When I was younger, I wasn’t concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always ‘lead’ to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began…

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  • “Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.” -Alexander Smith

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  • “I like death. I’m a big fan of it.” -Guy Ritchie

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  • “It’s certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.” -Giancarlo Esposito

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  • “In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at…

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  • “Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” -Christopher Fry

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  • “Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.” -Stephen Ambrose

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  • “There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there’s fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.” -Peter Mullan

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  • “When we play ‘Angel of Death’, it’s actually a 2 and half minutes sing ’til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.” -Kerry King

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  • “Nature creates while destroying, and doesn’t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn’t extinguished, as long as death doesn’t lose its rights.” -Ivan Turgenev

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  • “Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.” -Desmond Morris

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  • “They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…?” -Adrienne Rich

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  • “Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.” -Jean Anouilh

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  • “There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.” -Elias Canetti

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  • “The first novel I wrote was a monster – clocking in at 180,000 words – but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called ‘The Gods First Make Mad.’ It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didn’t let that put me off.” -Wilbur…

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  • “I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.” -Martin Short

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  • “Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” -Michel Aoun

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  • “But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.” -Donna Shalala

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  • “Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.” -John Ralston Saul

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  • “I’m watching the Weather Channel more than I’ve ever watched it. I’m scared to death it’s going to rain.” -John Elway

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  • “If you have fun, fine. It’s not all life and death.” -Bill Parcells

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  • “When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can’t afford, they are condemning good people to death.” -Tammy Bruce

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  • “People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.” -Alveda King

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  • “It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.” -Jacqueline Cochran

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  • “I think life is sacred, whether it’s abortion or the death penalty.” -Tim Kaine

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  • “I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.” -Liza Minnelli

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  • “Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.” -Lorna Luft

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  • “Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you’re in your death bed and that’s it, I think it’s the relationships you’ve had and the people that you’ve touched and the people that have touched you that matter.” -Julie Benz

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  • “I’m trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.” -Jack Kevorkian

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  • “There’s stuff I don’t like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don’t like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.” -Kat Dennings

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  • “Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that ‘death panels’ would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it’s hard to beat Sarah Palin’s ignorant nattering on the subject.” -Carl Hiaasen

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  • “The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.” -Theodore Parker

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  • “I’m not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what’s going on in the media. I’m supposed to be the typical amateur who’s 22 and scared to death and can’t believe he won the Olympics.” -Carl Lewis

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  • “I stay way from that area, and there’s only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.” -Peter Steele

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  • “My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.” -Alex Campbell

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  • “A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.” -Andrew Coyle Bradley

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  • “The American people are not just being taxed to death they’re being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life’s work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.” -J. D. Hayworth

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  • “We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN – we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.” -Bjorn…

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  • “I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large – especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others – nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by…

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  • “And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.” -Nigella Lawson

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  • “We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo – men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” -Robert McNamara

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  • “It’s normally the kiss of death to be identified as a rising star, or someone to watch.” -George Osborne

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  • “Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don’t fit on your face – they’re big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be…

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  • “What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg’s importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!” -Rita Dove

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  • “When I see someone who is starved, they don’t look alert. They don’t have boundless energy. If you’re too skinny, it looks like you’re near death.” -Kirstie Alley

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  • “‘American Horror’ goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience – ‘Flowers in the Attic’ paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like ‘Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.’ It even has ‘Go Ask Alice’-era urban legends.” -Rob Sheffield

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  • “People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.” -Polly Toynbee

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  • “When I die, don’t let my death stop the resistance.” -Muqtada al Sadr

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  • “It’s a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.” -Wangari Maathai

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  • “It’s something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.” -Travis Barker

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  • “Death by starvation is slow.” -Mary Austin

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  • “Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.” -Harry Browne

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  • “Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.” -Veronica Franco

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  • “Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.” -Edvard Munch

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  • “There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.” -Isabelle Adjani

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  • “One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to…

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  • “We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.” -Daniel Boone

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  • “I had always loved John Ford’s pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.” -Ethel Waters

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  • “Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.” -Alex Winter

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  • “After my mother’s death, I had such difficulty relating to people.” -Jaron Lanier

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  • “Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.” -Suge Knight

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  • “A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.” -Stanislav Grof

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  • “The drink? Yes, I’ve had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.” -Paul Gascoigne

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  • “Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.” -Taylor Caldwell

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  • “I’m death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!” -Kirk Hammett

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  • “Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.” -Al Goldstein

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  • “Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it… that’s different.” -Michael Haneke

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  • “Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.” -Thomas Browne

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  • “I believe in the institution of marriage. Of course being a Mormon, we believe in eternity rather than just till death do us part. If you really try hard, if you make it work, it’s blissful. But I also know a marriage that isn’t working can be painful.” -Donny Osmond

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  • “You haven’t lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.” -Vance Havner

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  • “I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” -Nancy Reagan

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  • “As far as my divorce goes, I love my family and I love my wife to death and I just don’t know what tomorrow’s going to bring.” -Hulk Hogan

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  • “I have had death threats from people with fixations.” -Enya

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  • “Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.” -Hilaire Belloc

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  • “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

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  • “Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.” -Sogyal Rinpoche

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  • “My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.” -Bear Grylls

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  • “Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It’s up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running…

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  • “More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren’t guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.” -John Grisham

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  • “We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.” -Tryon Edwards

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  • “Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt

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  • “I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.” -Dave Grohl

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  • “Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.” -Eugene Ionesco

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  • “I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life’s big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “I think that the core doctrines of Christianity – the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.” -Andrew Greeley

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  • “Emigration is no longer a solution it’s a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they’re knocking on doors that are not open.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun

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  • “In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.” -Carol P. Christ

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  • “Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.” -Bjork

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  • “No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.” -Walter Bagehot

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  • “Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer’s is coming mocks all one’s aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one’s accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not.” -Jane Smiley

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  • “We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.” -Charles de Montesquieu

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  • “You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.” -Ian Fleming

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  • “I think when you’re 10 years old, it’s too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.” -J. J. Abrams

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  • “I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.” -Barbara Corcoran

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  • “Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.” -Mary Baker Eddy

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  • “There is nothing glamorous about death.” -Roger Moore

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  • “My book ‘Trust Your Heart’, which is the story of my life, will be followed by ‘Singing Lessons’, a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.” -Judy Collins

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  • “The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.” -George Sewell

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  • “Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.” -Jose Marti

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  • “The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!” -Heather Mills

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  • “Perhaps we don’t need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That’s enough for me.” -Brad Pitt

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  • “If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.” -Sam Snead

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  • “In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can’t even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn’t have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.”…

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  • “Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.” -Michael Collins

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  • “I don’t think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There’s always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.” -Jesse Ventura

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  • “I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.” -Stevie Ray Vaughan

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  • “I was taught to confront things you can’t avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you’re trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don’t last for ever makes them beautiful.”…

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  • “I wouldn’t feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy – I’d be bored to death.” -Joaquin Phoenix

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  • “It’s not life or death it’s a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.” -Bernhard Langer

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  • “Miller didn’t write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That’s the measure of its merit.” -Elia Kazan

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  • “Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.” -Georg Hermes

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  • “I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn’t. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?” -Debra Winger

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  • “When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it’s going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.” -John Hodgman

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  • “I try to write lyrics so that they won’t age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.” -Florence Welch

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  • “A friend said to me, ‘Be glad for your troubles – they strengthen you.’ Well, if that’s the truth, I’m going to be so strong they’ll have to beat me to death!” -Sonia Johnson

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  • “She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.” -Margaret Sanger

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  • “The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.” -George Meredith

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  • “Life and death have been lacking in my life.” -Jorge Luis Borges

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  • “Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school.” -Dan Savage

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  • “My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.” -Jack Black

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  • “I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.” -A. N. Wilson

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  • “We are all of us resigned to death: it’s life we aren’t resigned to.” -Graham Greene

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  • “Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.” -Edward Young

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  • “I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.” -Leo Burnett

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  • “People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.” -Taylor Caldwell

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  • “People on death row, the treatment of animals, women’s right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!” -Eddie Vedder

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  • “Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.” -Donald Cargill

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  • “I wish to be a martyr, and I don’t fear death.” -Muqtada al Sadr

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  • “Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.” -Dennis Rodman

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  • “I looked Death right in the face.” -Travis Barker

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  • “‘Hamlet’ is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being the difference between sanity and insanity the meaning of life and death what’s real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.” -Michael Sheen

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