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).
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“It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.” -Woody Allen
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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” -Blaise Pascal
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“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.” -Michelangelo
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“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.” -Virgil
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“When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.” -John Steinbeck
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“Our life is made by the death of others.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” -Lord Byron
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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.” -Epictetus
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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” -William Blake
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“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.” -Walt Whitman
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“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.” -Bertrand Russell
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“There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.” -Carl Jung
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“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.” -Epicurus
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“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” -Norman Cousins
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“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.” -Billy Graham
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“Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty… mine’s putting in an express lane.” -Ron White
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“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.” -Paulo Coelho
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“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” -Pope John Paul II
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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” -Victor Hugo
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“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Belief is the death of intelligence.” -Robert Anton Wilson
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“‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” -Thomas Paine
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“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” -Patrick Henry
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“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.” -Sun Tzu
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“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” -Emily Dickinson
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“Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?” -W. C. Fields
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“If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.” -Angelina Jolie
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“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
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“There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” -Coco Chanel
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“The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.” -Bill Gates
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“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.” -Harriet Tubman
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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” -Joel Osteen
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“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“An unused life is an early death.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I’ve been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama – then candidate Obama – going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I’ve seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of ’til death do we part.” -Mitt Romney
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“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.” -Abdul Kalam
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“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?” -Chanakya
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“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” -Bill Hicks
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“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.” -James Dean
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“I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.” -Ron Paul
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“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.” -Clint Eastwood
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“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.” -Voltaire
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“I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.” -Anne Frank
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“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?” -Plato
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“Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.” -Bob Dylan
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” -Isaac Asimov
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“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” -Judy Garland
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“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” -Ayn Rand
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“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.” -Carl Sagan
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“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.” -George Carlin
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“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.” -Tupac Shakur
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“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” -Albert Camus
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“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” -Jim Carrey
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.” -Aldous Huxley
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“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.” -Khalil Gibran
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“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.” -Jim Morrison
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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” -Anais Nin
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“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.” -Socrates
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“Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” -Lao Tzu
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“Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.” -Che Guevara
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“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“The valiant never taste of death but once.” -William Shakespeare
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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” -Robert Fulghum
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“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” -Madalyn Murray O’Hair
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“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” -Aristotle
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“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.” -Buddha
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“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” -Mark Twain
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”…
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“Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne
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“There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.” -Nelson Mandela
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“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” -Will Rogers
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“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” -Albert Einstein
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“If you don’t have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.” -Scott Caan
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“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.” -Robert Bolt
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“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.” -Juliette Binoche
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“He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.” -Adam Clarke
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“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.” -David Sarnoff
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“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.” -John Greenleaf Whittier
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“John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.” -Maureen O’Hara
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“Hell, madam, is to love no longer.” -Georges Bernanos
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“The death of what’s dead is the birth of what’s living.” -Arlo Guthrie
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“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” -B. R. Hayden
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“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.” -E. W. Howe
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“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” -Ashley Montagu
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“Death is the last enemy: once we’ve got past that I think everything will be alright.” -Alice Thomas Ellis
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“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.” -Willa Cather
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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.” -Maurice Maeterlinck
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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.” -Erik H. Erikson
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“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.” -Ernst Moritz Arndt
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“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.” -Joseph Hall
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“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” -Errol Flynn
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“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.” -Carter Burwell
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“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” -Philip Johnson
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“He who doesn’t fear death dies only once.” -Giovanni Falcone
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“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.” -Anna Akhmatova
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“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.” -T. S. Eliot
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“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” -Susan Ertz
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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” -Alice Walker
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“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” -Lois McMaster Bujold
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“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.” -Mary Catherine Bateson
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“Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’” -Bill Maher
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“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” -Quintus Ennius
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“A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.” -Euripides
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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” -Clarence Darrow
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“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” -William Penn
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“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.” -Stewart Alsop
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“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” -Helen Keller
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“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” -Albert Pike
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“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” -David Gerrold
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